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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
22) Recreated
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The reawakened volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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"Lily must go into the Afterlife to save Amon and protect the world from being overthrown by the deadly Devouror of the Underworld"--
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""I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the...
25) Shimmer
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Series
Riley Bloom series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Riley, dead at age twelve and now a Soul Catcher, works with her teacher Bodhi to help Rebecca, the daughter of a former plantation owner who, furious about being murdered during a 1733 slave revolt, is keeping those who died with her from crossing over.
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Dodge novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead...
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Everneath novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Now that Nikki Beckett's boyfriend has been sucked into the tunnels of the Everneath, Nikki must journey down to the underworld to bring him back before he is lost forever"--
29) Everlife
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Everlife volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
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In order to unite the afterworld realms of Troika and Myriad and end their destructive conflict, Ten Lockwood must destroy the powerful Prince of Ravens, but the only way to do that is to bond with Killian Flynn.
30) Lifeblood
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Everlife volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Because of Ten's rare powers to absorb and share light, the Powers that Be have the highest expectations for her. With her first mission approaching, Ten must convince a group of humans to join her side before they die. And with Killian as her competition, Ten must make the choice between love and victory.
31) Friday
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Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss," she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America's disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay. Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation...
32) Everlost
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Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
34) Doomed
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"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory-or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet shes invisible to everyone whos still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer...
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"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Near-future Australia is controlled by Organicore, a company that produces the "perfectly balanced" synthetic meals that have all but replaced wild food, but Piper McBride, sixteen, deaf, and cued white, begins to wonder if wild food is as dangerous as Organicore's propaganda says.
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Gifted clans volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Riley Oh ventures into the Spiritrealm, where she hopes to convince Saint Heo Jun to become the new patron god of the Gom clan and restore their healing powers.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Juliecalls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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Madison Avery novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels-all itching to kill someone.Madison Avery's dreams of fitting in at school died when she did. Especially since she'd maintained the illusion of a body, dealt with a pesky guardian angel, and oh yeah, brought the reaper...