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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
2) Pandemic
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English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
One year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, Ryan Perry receives strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me, " and discovers that he is being stalked by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all. . . . One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads for his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening...
17) Harvest
Author
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston's Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she's elated when the hospital's elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim's healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched...