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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
2) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
6) Line of duty
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bomb explodes in the 30-story Icon International building, fire departments from around the area are called in to battle the blaze. But as they work to evacuate the upper floors more bombs explode, trapping firefighters and civilians beneath the rubble. When the smoke clears, lawyer Jill Clark Nichols realizes that her firefighter husband, Dan, is missing. Can Jill's faith carry her through the long days of pain and uncertainty?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century's legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
13) Dead water zone
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, & Co
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Muscular sixteen-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it.
Author
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Roseann Lloyd's new poetry collection takes us on a sister's unflinching exploration into grief for a brother lost on a solo hike in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. His clothes are found but not his body. How does one mourn without a body? This absence calls up memories of his life and mixed emotions; it evokes other disappearances-children missing in Iraq, climbers lost on Everest, a college student drowned. Even...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right.
16) So yesterday
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
19) Crossing Montana
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While looking for her grandfather who is missing, teenaged Callie examines her father's longtime absence and its damaging effects on her family.
20) Little girl lost
Author
Publisher
Elsevier/Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years before, little Carrie had vanished. Now grown up, her sister Liz must find out how--and why.
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