Joshua Swanson
2) Ship Breaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 3
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In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only six--who will complete the Prophecy of Seven? The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea....
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Secret series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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"Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the sinister chocolatier Señor Hugo! Can Cass and Max-Ernest discover the evil ingredient before it's too late?"--Cover [p. 4].
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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One morning Nate looked in the henhouse and saw the biggest egg he'd ever seen. Six weeks later, no one--not the townspeople, the scientific world, the senators from Washington-- was prepared for what hatched. Oliver Butterworth's funny story of a Triceratops in the twentieth century.
9) Flat broke
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
10) Gatekeepers
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Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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With their mother still missing after going through a Civil War time portal in their spooky house, and their father in jail under a false accusation, Xander, David, and their younger sister continue to try to bring their mother back, now with the help of an old relative who has turned up unexpectedly.
11) Timescape
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Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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David, Xander, Dad, and Keal discover that Taksidian wants their house for himself in order to use the time portals to build an empire, and unless they can find his weakness in time, the future of the world itself may be in danger.
12) Whirlwind
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Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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To save the world from destruction, rescue their kidnapped mother, and battle the evil Taksidian, the King siblings try to control the mysterious portals in their house that send them to different time periods.
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Secret series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Cass and Max-Ernest discover the Museum of Magic, unscramble more coded messages, and solve new mysteries in their attempt to thwart the Terces Society's ambitions of discovering immortality.
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"E. L. Doctorow selected some of his finest stories to create this pinnacle collection, his final project before his death. There are 15 stories total, including "The Water Works," "Jolene," "All the Time in the World," and Doctorow's own revision of "Liner Notes: The Songs of Billy Bathgate.""--
15) Out At Second
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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When the Grizzlies' first baseman is sidelined two days before the playoffs, catcher Manny Griffin and second baseman Stu Fletcher take it upon themselves to help his replacement become a better player.Should Manny keep his promise....even if it puts his friend in danger?
16) Bad magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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"Thirteen-year-old Clay, a boy who no longer believes in magic, tags graffiti on his classroom wall and, as punishment, is sent to a camp for wayward kids located on a volcanic island, where eccentric campmates abound, a ghost walks among the abandoned ruins of a mansion, and a dangerous force threatens to erupt with bad magic"--
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Pub. Date
2010
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Rick Riordan presents the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series, a secondary saga to Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Now that Percy Jackson and his friends have defeated the Titan lords, it's time to focus on rebuilding Camp Half-Blood and teaching the next generation of demigods, one of whom is Jason. But when Jason suffers from amnesia during a class trip to the Grand Canyon and discovers he can suddenly fly, he and his friends receive a visit...
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.
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Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
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Series
Secret series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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When a mummy disappears from the local history museum while Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are there, they try to solve the case in order to clear their names and, they hope, discover the Secret they have been seeking.