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81) The identity man
Author
Series
Publisher
Otto Penzler Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How the moose (almost) stole Christmas. Lana Montgomery is everything the quirky small town of Moose Springs, Alaska, can't stand: a rich socialite with dreams of changing things for the better. But Lana's determined to prove that she belongs ... even if it means trading her stilettos for snow boots and tracking one of the town's hairiest Christmas mysteries: the Santa Moose, an antlered Grinch hell-bent on destroying every bit of holiday cheer (and...
Author
Series
Sophie Miller books volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"None of Sophie's oh-so-perfect names have stuck yet. But this time is different. Sophie isn't going to worry about whether or not she can live up to her new name. Because this time, she's fearless. She's Sophie the Daredevil! But it's not always easy to face your fears. Sophie is about to learn that lesson the hard way!"--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Book
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Hilly finds himself falling for Lem's niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his father's dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah.
86) Dear child
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
87) Rick
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005, 2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
89) My powerful hair
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything: popularity, good looks, perfect grades--there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy. Until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality. To survive, he must forget the world he once knew, and play the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a girl is asked where shes from - where she's really from - none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn't give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one.
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For centuries there have been rumors of another continent on the dragons' planet -- another land far across the ocean, populated by tribes of dragons very different from those we know. But there's never been any evidence, and most dragons dismissed the rumors as fairy tales. Until now. Because it turns out the stories are true. And the other tribes are coming.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, you to have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to see what's in her heart. Best friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn't lead more different lives. While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty high-rise apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an oops baby, two fiery teenagers and a husband who only physically resembles the man she fell in love with...
96) Good as gone
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She...
97) Runaway
Author
Series
Airhead novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Venus' mother wants her to be a supermodel, but all Venus wants to do is play soccer. When she's scheduled to portray Cinderella at a toy store, Venus has to show everyone what SHE wants to be.
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.
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