Stefan Rudnicki
1) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A monster created by scientist Victor Frankenstein from parts of corpses and brought to life develops loathing for himself and hatred for his creator as he learns to think for himself.
2) Leaving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When offered the chance to audition for a Broadway musical in New York City. Bailey Flanigan is unable to pass up what she considers an opportunity of a lifetime. However, her boyfriend Cody is staying behind in Indiana to be close to his mother. Now in a big city all by herself, Bailey must embark on the latest chapter in her young life.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, published in 1928, is a classic addition to Christie's renowned collection of detective novels.
This captivating mystery revolves around the luxurious Blue Train, where a murder takes place during a journey to the French Riviera. The story features the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, who must unravel a complex web of relationships, motives, and clues to solve the crime.
Christie's masterful...
4) Longing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Longing, book three in the Bailey Flanigan Series, picks up where Learning ended. After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town...
5) Learning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. Bailey grows closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York, while Cody coaches a small high school football team. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one another. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Both Bailey and Cody learn significant life lessons in this poignant...
6) Loving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
In the fourth and final chapter in the Bailey Flanigan Series, Bailey is planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles. But doubts are wracking Bailey's mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon? Or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
Author
Series
End series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
In the second installment of The End series, not even Joshua Jordan's anti-nuclear technology can stop global events moving to catastrophic as terrorist missiles take down an American plane and a bomb explodes in the Mall of America.
Joshua Jordan's reputation is on the line when his controversial anti-nuclear system fails to protect a commercial flight as it takes off from Chicago and is shot down by a terrorist missile. The government is taking...
8) Ender's game
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Series
Ender Wiggin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Joshua Jordan's new weapons defense system will secure America against an array of new enemies, including a nuclear strike on New York City by North Korea. But global forces are mounting and corrupt government leaders will go to any extreme to prevent an impending economic catastrophe. As world events begin setting the stage for the 'end of days' foretold in Revelation, Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves.
10) Coming home
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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As the Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, the unthinkable happens, the family rallies together, and memories come to light that bring healing and hope during a time when darkness might have the final word.
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English
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Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
12) Big country
Author
Series
Stories of Louis L'Amour volume Vol. 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ride, you Tonto raiders: Matt Sabre finds himself on the special trail to the home of the man he gunned down. It was a rough and bitter trip from El Paso to the Mogollons in the Tonto Basin, where if a man saw a stranger, he shot him!
War party: A boy on the brink of manhood, a resourceful frontier woman who has beauty as well as fortitude, and a strong male character who is single and hence marriageable come together in this powerful, romantic,...
14) Penrod
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869—1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. In his 1914 work "Penrod", Tarkington presents a series of sketches that depict the adventures of an eleven-year-old boy called Penrod Schofield living...
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Series
Publisher
T. Y. Crowell Co
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written.
In...
Author
Series
Tarzan volume 9
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
The story picks up with the Clayton family, Tarzan, Jane Porter and their son Korak, returning from their adventures in the previous novel (#8). Along the way they find an orphaned lion cub, which Tarzan takes home and trains.Flora Hawkes, a previous housemaid of the Clayton's had overheard of Tarzan's discovery of the treasure chamber in the lost city of Opar (from The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar) and had managed to copy his...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 606
Publisher
Dent
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
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The curious call of an unseen bird lures a young European explorer deeper and deeper into the jungle, where he encounters the source of the siren song - a lovely, half-wild girl with mysterious powers. Thus begins the romance between Abel, a revolutionary hiding among an Indian tribe in the Venezuelan rainforest, and Rima, who speaks the languages of birds and longs to return to the land of her birth to be reunited with others of her kind. Written...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
He Chose The World's Deadliest Land: To Die, Or To Live Again. . .
Adam Laret, big, young and headstrong, ran from Ehrenberg to the banks of the Rio Colorado. He was blindly fleeing his scheming, gambling brother and the woman Guerd stole from him. But Adam's escape wasn't complete until Guerd, in the company of a sheriff, hunted him down. Then Adam committed the ultimate crime. With the mark of Cain upon him--he traveled into the desert to atone...
20) Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China...