Charles Carroll
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"Always be hungry, Owen," the Chef said softly. "Don't ever let life just wash over you. Savor it-every smell, every taste, every sound. That's Rule One, Owen: Taste everything."
Owen Devon used to have a pretty good life. At least until a few months ago, when disaster struck his family. Now his grades are plunging and his life is spiraling out of control. To make matters worse, he's just been tagged for vandalism-and to repay the damage, he's being...
4) Jingo Django
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An orphan boy resolves to follow a treasure map he finds inscribed on a whale's tooth.
5) Standing up
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Two children are left naked on an island in a lake as a prank when they are at summer camp. Instead of returning to camp they run off together on a three day trip of self-discovery.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Abandoned in a therapeutic boarding school in upstate New York, 16-year-old suicide survivor Benjamin endures a turbulent environment dominated by scheduled medication, emotionally arrested caregivers and a brilliant but raging headmaster whose sudden illness throws the school into turmoil.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
12) Trial by fire
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Stranded. Original series volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
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When the Depression strikes America, throwing millions out of work, Petey Williamson's family seems safe. Hadn't the boss promised Petey's father that he'd always have a job? But during the Depression, promises cannot always be kept, and Petey finds his family sliding rapidly into poverty. And when Petey's much-admired cousin Steve starts working as a union organizer in the battle to improve conditions for workers, poverty turns into tragedy.
"Collier...
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Twin brothers Fred and George Brounian were once co-CEOs of a New York City software company devoted to the creation of utopian virtual worlds. Now, as two wars rage and the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, George is in a coma; control of the company has been wrenched away by a military contracting conglomerate; and Fred has moved back in with his parents.
Broke and alone, Fred is led by an attractive woman into a neurological study promising...
15) Stranded
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Stranded. Original series volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
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"Death's Sweet Embrace is a compelling read. I can't wait to read more about the Brethren."
-New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur
"Tracey O'Hara writes in a voice full of passion and power."
-Nalini Singh
An exciting new star in contemporary urban fantasy, Tracey O'Hara returns with Death's Sweet Embrace, the second book in her Dark Brethren series. In the bestselling vein of J.R. Ward and Patricia Briggs, O'Hara follows up her...
17) Survivors
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Stranded. Original series volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
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Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a massive surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Two brief and terrible hours later, much of the American fleet lay sunk or burning; 2,388 Americans were dead; and the United States and Japan were at war. Dozens of children witnessed this pivotal moment in history. And hundreds of young servicemen-both American and Japanese-came of age on this unforgettable...
19) The Culling
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Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population-some 4.5 billion people-by releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it?It's horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some 40...
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There are thousands of books on success, yet very few on failure.
Success is often just a moment a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious persons constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim. In the groundbreaking book Why People Fail, Siimon Reynolds, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, explores the main causes of failure, in any field,...