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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Flagon and Gallaway Sackett went to the town of Tazewell, Tennessee to pay a debt their father had incurred, they were not looking for trouble. Black Fetchen and his clan had other ideas, but they let the Sacketts get the drop on them. Humiliated, Fetchen swore to get even. He thought he saw a chance to do that when the two men agreed to escort sixteen year old Judith Costello, who had a crush on Fetchen, to her father's ranch in Colorado. With...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys; a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights; where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The story begins with Frank and Joe Hardy barely avoiding being hit by a speeding driver whom they notice has bright red hair. Later, this same red-haired driver attempts a ferryboat ticket office robbery and successfully steals a yellow jalopy called Queen from the Hardys' friend, Chet Morton. Due to one witness reporting that the villain had dark hair, the Hardys assume he is using a red wig. It is learned that the thief returned to Chet's home...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead. Despite...
11) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
340L
Language
English
Description
The four Alden children and their new friend Lars uncover a mystery during a trip to an island in the South Seas.
The Boxcar Children are taking a vacation on an uninhabited South Seas island. They soon suspect someone else is there too, someone who may not want them around!
12) Mike's mystery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four youngsters solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated...
14) Mojave crossing
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Series
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
15) The lonely men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Tell Sackett rode into Mexico, he believed he was riding to rescue young Orry Sackett from Apache Indians, risking his life and the lives of three companions in the effort. He knew his brother, Orrin, had married, but he did not know he had a son until Orrin's wife, Laura Pritt Sackett, told him so. But Orrin was back in Washington, D.C., so it was up to Tell and his friends to save the boy. Little did Tell know that Orrin and Laura's marriage...
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Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving a criminal named Snattman and the illegal drug trade smuggling of stolen drugs. Hardy directs Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location overlooking Barmet Bay offers an excellent vantage point to watch for smugglers. The Hardys are tricked into the house by cries for help, and are trapped for a short time in...
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Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When their detective father asks them to play burglar in order to protect a client's valuable invention from thieves, the Hardy boys find themselves involved in a large and dangerous conspiracy.
20) Vegas heat
Author
Series
Vegas volume 2
Language
English
Description
Vegas Heat is the story of the Thornton dynasty ... of Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent Las Vegas casino, when her ex-husband Ash falls desperately ill ...of Fanny's twin sons, Sage and Birch, one content in his conventional life while the other's search for happiness leads to tragedy, and renewed hope ... of Fanny's daughter Sunny, betrayed her husband, fighting a battle no woman should ever have to face... of her...