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21) Stars and smoke
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Series
Stars and smoke (Lu) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Meet Winter Young: A global pop sensation, with a voice like velvet and looks that could kill. Meet Sydney Cossette: An agent in an elite covert ops group, and an ice queen whose moves are as dangerous as her comebacks. When a major crime boss gifts his daughter a private Winter Young concert for her birthday, Sydney's and Winter's lives suddenly collide. To stop an international disaster, the two must infiltrate the organization's inner circle,...
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2023.
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English
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"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching, and asking -- something a man can never do with a female...
23) The duke and I
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood....
24) The lying woods
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
25) The Naturals
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The Naturals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases"--
26) One Fifth Avenue
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English
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From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City — this time, through the lens of where they live. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into — one way or another. For the women...
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The Young Bucks, Matt and Nick were inseparable. They went to school together, shared the same room, and even finished each other's sentences. The Young Bucks thought they could take on anything, inside the wrestling ring and out, with their Elite Team friends by their sides. But when Matt and Nick are singled out, who will have the courage to stand up and speak out?
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Honors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that's made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she's headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan--a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
30) Adjustment Day
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English
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Politicians have brought the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males. Working-class men dream of burying the elites. Professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Into this dyspeptic time, a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Imagine there's no God; there is no Heaven or Hell; there is only your son and his son and his son and the world...
31) Caleb's crossing
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English
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A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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...
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"Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes...
34) Trae Young
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young is an up-and-coming basketball prodigy with elite offensive skills. Sports fans will love this high-action book about one of basketball's newest stars"--
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English
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Camille Z. Charles is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Rory Kramer is associate professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University. Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Kimberly C. Torres is an affiliated faculty member in organizational dynamics...
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Series
John Darvelle mysteries volume 1
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English
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Private detective John Darvelle is hired by a powerful Los Angeles filmmaker to find a young woman who just might be hiding something, and as he plunges deep into the hidden world of the Hollywood elite finds himself on a twisting, turning journey that puts him face-to-face with the LAPD, a ruthless underground crime operation, and a cold-blooded killer.
37) Code red
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
39) Shadow and bone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
40) The horse dancer
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English
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"A quintessential Jojo Moyes novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything. When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school--away from their gritty London neighborhood, she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah...
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