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2013
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading
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During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze
9) The Daughter
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Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
10) Legend, Volume 4
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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"While exploring the mysterious desert, Eun-Gyo, No-Ah, and Ho-Dong find a magnificent mansion in the middle of nowhere. There they discover some secrets about the Seven Blade Sword from the mistress of the mansion, who herself is harboring a secret. And before the end of the night, somebody dies..."--Cover, P. [4]
11) Legend, Volume 2
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"With the help of Eun-Gyo and No-Ah, the 'princess' Nak-Rang escapes her captors. But just when they think they're out of the woods, the high priest Ho-Dong stops them at the edge of the dried-up Mother Lake. There, a battle ensues... and a miracle occurs!"--P.[4] of cover
12) Legend, Volume 6
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"As No-Ah battles on with Toh, Eun-Gyo's past life resurfaces, and she emerges from the pagodas as Joo-Ji, the central blade and be reborn as a human, Joo-Ji (in Eun-Gyo's body) is eager to reunite with her lover once again. But though he loved her in a past life, No-Ah is hesitant. If he accepts Joo-Ji, will he lose Eun-Gyo forever?"--P. [4] of cover
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"When I got there, it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the fields, and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone."--Back cover
14) Legend, Volume 1
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, a selfish king summoned the monstrous Bulkirin into the real world. The monster killed half of all human beings, leaving the rest helpless as to what to do. That is, until one day when a hero appeared and defeated the Bulkirin with the legendary Seven Blade Sword. But what does this have to do with eighth grader Eun-Gyo Sung? After being suspended from school for fighting, she runs away from home, and then gets kidnapped by a mysterious...
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Painfully aware of the fate that lies ahead of Eun-Gyo should either the Shaman or the Bulkirin succeed in their respective goals involving the Seven-Blade-Sword, No-Ah asks Eun-Gyo to run away with him to a place where they can never be found. But Eun-Gyo refuses to allow the world to be destroyed because of her cowardice."--P. [4] of cover
16) Down and across
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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His friends know what they want to do with the rest of their lives, but Scott Ferdowsi can hardly commit to a breakfast cereal, let alone a passion. With his parents pushing him to settle on a "practical" career, Scott sneaks off to Washington, DC, seeking guidance from a famous psychologist who claims to know the secret to success. He meets Fiora Buchanan, a ballsy college student whose life ambition is to write crossword puzzles. Now Scott is sneaking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
18) Legend, Volume 9
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Eun-Gyo may have just realized the extent of her feelings for No-Ah, but she has no time to lose in proving it! With the object of her affection at death's door after Ho-Dong's betrayal, the tables have turned. Now Eun-Gyo has to do the saving, and she's faced with using all the resources at her disposal to save No-Ah...but is she willing to go so far as to give up her own life for his?!"--P. [4] of cover
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"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
Summer, 1994, Claypot, Wisconsin. Tired of seeing his best friend, Dale "Bread" Breadwin, bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson...
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"It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...
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