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2) Forever odd
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to communicate with the dead to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come,...
3) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Leaving the small desert town where he has spent his life, Odd Thomas, a hero who lives between the living and the dead, seeks the solitude of an isolated monastery, but he soon finds himself confronting a killer stalking his sanctuary's halls.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
5) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Freelance hitman, Will Robie, has a job from the US government. When he expertly nails his target -- a suspected enemy of the country -- he sees something on leaving the scene of crime which he suspects will have deadly consequences ... Robie saves a young teenage runaway who has escaped from a private facility and seems to be in great danger. The location of her parents is unknown and after she's returned to the police, he decides to keep tabs on...
6) Gone girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
7) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day.
10) Cinnamon kiss
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing unprecedented financial troubles when his daughter requires a medical treatment, Easy Rawlins takes a job tracking down a missing attorney and legal assistant, but the assignment proves more complicated than anticipated.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the people closest to them start to disappear, Taj and Nick hit the streets of Los Angeles looking for a way to reach the lost souls of their friends that have been "tapped" by The Angels Practice, a World Wide Web-based movement that connects youngpeople and makes them feel good with no apparent consequences.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood thought that she and her best friend Evie Verver shared everything, but when Evie disappears from their suburban Midwestern community, Lizzie's search uncovers secrets and lies that make her wonder if she knew her friend at all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared, ' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil...
Author
Series
City trilogy (Darren Shan) volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
For ten years, Capac Raimi has ruled the city as The Cardinal. Created by the first Cardinal to rule after him and continue his legacy, Capac cannot be killed. But that doesn't stop his enemies trying. And he has a lot of enemies.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
17) Fear the worst
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Tim is an average guy. He sells cars. He has and ex-wife who's moved in with a man whose moody son spends more time online than he should. Tim's girlfriend is turning out to be a bit of a flake. It's not a life without hassles, but nothing will prepare him for the nightmare that's about the begin.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Hired by the CIA to track down the U.S. Secretary of State following a suspicious plane crash in Libya, Juan Cabrillo uncovers a plot by Libya's foreign minister, a scheme with links to a centuries-old Islamic scrolls.
20) NYPD Red 3
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a billionaire's chauffeur is brutally murdered and his son is abducted, NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his ex-girlfriend partner, Kylie MacDonald, realize that their own lives are becoming more threatened as they get closer to solving the case.
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