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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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After Zelie and Amari bring magic back to the land of Or詳ha, the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Or詳ha, forcing Z⥬ie to fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
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2021.
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"Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president—some...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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James Bond series volume 42
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James Bond, British special agent 007, is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West Aftrican nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.
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℗♭1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying buzzing habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit ... and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard!
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Kingdom of souls volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Born to a family of powerful witch doctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But she fails to read the bones, fails to see the future, and fails to call upon the ancestors. With each passing year, her ambitious mother looks upon her with ever-growing disapproval. There is only one thing Arrah hasn't tried. Charlatans in the market trade years of their own lives for a taste of magic without knowing how many each ritual will take. That is a sacrifice...
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Anansi books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
10) B is for baby
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B is for Baby. B is for Brother. B is for going to see Baba! One morning after breakfast, Baby's big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. He'll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn't realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle. Little ones learning...
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Anansi books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
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Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want,...
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Anansi books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
A tricky spider outwits all the other animals in this African folk tale.
15) Red at the bone
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Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child it produces. In 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming-of-age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special, custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
17) The golden hour
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Judd Ryker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
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When Judd Ryker is appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, he figures he has a mandate to help the United States respond more quickly to foreign crises, but he has��t reckoned with the intense State, Defense, Pentagon, White House, and CIA infighting and turf battles he would face. Then comes a coup in Mali. It is his chance to prove that his theory of the Golden Hour actually works. As Ryker races from Washington...
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From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....
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The adventurers quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Widely known as the lord of the privateers, Royd Frobisher expects to execute the final stage of the rescue mission his brothers have begun. What he does not expect is to be pressured into taking Isobel Carmichaelhis childhood sweetheart, former handfasted bride and current business partnerwith him.
20) Speculator
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High Ground novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Charles Knight goes to West Africa expecting to stike gold, but ends up getting in the crosshairs of eveyone from the United States government to mercenaries.