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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an English country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
1962. Elisa Esposito-- mute her whole life-- works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Richard Strickland, the...
5) Winterkeep
Author
Series
Graceling Realm volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes."--
6) Uncaged
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Some creatures can outlive humans by centuries. Readers will learn about these extreme examples of longevity in the animal kingdom, how aging happens, and what genes help animals to live so long."--
Author
Series
Tales of elemental spirits volume 3
Publisher
Big Mouth House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Description
"Changelings, gryphons, and gods get in the way of us mortals who are struggling to find someone to fall in love with, something interesting to do, somewhere to run to"--
12) Storm
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.
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Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors--and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and a way back home....
14) The hot zone
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The book tells this dramatic story, giving an account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
15) Vicious spirits
Author
Series
Gumiho volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Gu Miyoung is a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. She violated the rules of survival to rescue Jihoon and lost her fox bead, her gumiho soul. Following the deaths of Miyoung's mother, Yena, and Jihoon's grandmother, they might have a shot at normalcy with the support of their friend Lee Somin, and their frenemy, Junu. But Miyoung is getting sicker and sicker by the day: her lost fox bead has caused a...
16) The beast player
Author
Series
Beast player volume 1
Publisher
Godwinbooks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Erin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could...
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
Author
Series
Magonia novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley's critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes--and two versions of herself. Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She's living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you've spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world....
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