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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. But those troubles don't compare with grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Mason's new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky,...
2) House arrest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
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Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
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Pub. Date
2013
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A Carnegie Medal Honor Book Twelve-year-old Smith is a denizen of the mean streets of eighteenth-century London, living hand to mouth by virtue of wit and pluck. One day he trails an old gentleman with a bulging pocket, deftly picks it, and as footsteps ring out from the alley by which he had planned to make his escape, finds himself in a tough spot. Taking refuge in a doorway, he sees two men emerge to murder the man who was his mark. They...
5) The Fixer
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The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Her older sister is DC's number-one "fixer," making politicians' scandals go away. Now Tess is following in her sister's footsteps, solving problems for her fellow Hardwicke Academy Students.
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Pub. Date
2014
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Other than a strange, recurring dream that involves running for his life, Tim is a happy guy. In this paranormal mystery, Jennifer Torres introduces us to the seaside town of Briny Deep; an ideal spot to grow up for Tim and his close friends: Max, Emily, Luke, and Nina. Nothing bad ever happens here, until a stranger appears in town and a young girl vanishes - and then others disappear. The friends must scramble to uncover the truth as they begin...
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2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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"For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting thief? In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series, Carmen shares her own backstory for the first time ever. Now, it's time to find out.... Who in the world is Carmen Sandiego"--
Carmen Sandiego, the world's foremost thief, goes on a mysterious mission where ACME and Interpol is close on her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
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Theodore Boone volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Theodore Boone is back - and the stakes are higher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no-one has the answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to chase down the truth and save April.
11) The Activist
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Theodore Boone volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Theodore Boone, young lawyer, has had a lot to deal with in his 13 years; everything from kidnapping to murder. But he's come through it all and, with the law on his side, justice has always prevailed. But sometimes the law doesn't seem so just. His friend Hardie Quinn is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected: other homes, businesses and schools lie in the path of the road. Theo has to...
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Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
14) The Scandal
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Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Future lawyer Theodore Boone finds himself in the middle of a cheating scandal when an anonymous tip leads the Strattenberg school board to investigate suspicious standardized testing scores at another local middle school
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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With thrills, chills, and laughs on every page, this fourth book in the tween series “sure to please young readers looking for a thrill” (Kirkus ReviewsZombie Kid “the perfect book,” this fourth book in the Case File 13 series will leave you rolling in your tomb.
16) Seconds Away
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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"Griffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne, who is blind, escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel"--
19) Ali Cross
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Ali Cross volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"When his best friend Abraham is reported missing, Ali Cross sets out to find him, but he soon learns that being a kid sleuth isn't easy and clues aren't always what they seem"--Provided by publisher.
20) Ask the dark
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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"A thriller about Billy Zeets, a 14-year-old semi-delinquent in a deadly tango with a killer"--