M. T Anderson
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Norumbegan quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
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Norumbegan quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Friends Brian and Gregory have survived the Game of Sunken Places, but are once again drawn back to cousin Prudence's house in Vermont, where they discover that something has gone very wrong with time, people have disappeared, and danger is lurking everywhere.
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Norumbegan quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Bent on tracking down the elven Norumbegans in order to save Vermont from an invasion of dream-sucking Thusser, Brian, Gregory and the mechanical troll Kalgrash pass through an interdimensional curtain--to find themselves inside an organic alien body.
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Norumbegan quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Brian and Gregory are trapped in a world that is falling apart. Invaders are at the gates. The land and seas are in upheaval. The rich are oblivious and everyone else is completely ignored. It's bad enough that Brian and Gregory can't find a way to escape. But they also know that if New Norumbega falls, so too will Earth. The Thusser invaders have already made one part of Vermont completely hostage, gorging power by sucking on people's dreams. It's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
6) Feed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After escaping from a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, on hearing of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces, Octavian and his friends find themselves on board a British ship raiding the shores of Virginia as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost
12) Apex predator
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.
15) Burger Wuss
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English
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Anthony has never been able to stand up for himself - that is, not until his girlfriend is in someone else's arms. Then Anthony vows revenge and devises the Plan. It begins with getting a job at the fast-food restaurant where his nemesis happens to be a star employee. But when the Plan is finally in place, will Anthony's hunger for revenge be satisfied? Will he prove he's not a wuss?
16) Thirsty
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English
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All Chris really wants is to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an ancient ritual that keeps Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampiric fate. He needs help, but whom can he trust? A savagely funny tale of terror, teen...
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Graduation from high school? A senior thesis? A betrayal by someone you love? A loss of innocence? The death of a parent? Losing the family you always wished you had? Facing a harsh reality? What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"? And what happens when it's nothing you imagined it would be? Do you want to be a published author? The editors at HarperCollins invite you to submit a short story about a character who has to face...