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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Formats
Description
Dive into the dark and pulsating streets of Victorian England with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece, "Oliver Twist." Follow the captivating destiny of Oliver Twist, a brave young orphan, as he confronts the injustice, poverty, and cruelty of the world around him.
Oliver, mistreated in an orphanage, escapes to London where he becomes entangled with a gang of thieves led by the infamous Fagin. But Oliver is different. His innocence and purity...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.
Author
Series
System divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
march 2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
5) The fat man
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year old Colin Potter and his family as part of a plan to get even for the mistreatment he suffered as a schoolboy.
7) Black heart
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.
8) White cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
Author
Publisher
A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 29
Description
This book is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. We see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. We witness from behind the scenes the highest-profile case of the year, and we follow the cases that are the daily grind of the...
12) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
14) Legend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
15) Forensic science
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Forensic science––the preparation of scientific evidence to be presented in court––is an increasingly valuable aspect of the investigation of crime. Although rare commentaries on the subject date back many centuries, it is only over the last 200 years that a systematic approach has been made––an approach that has accelerated rapidly in the past half-century. The detection and analysis of poisons was the first forensic technique to be developed...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As the horrors of the Third Reich were exposed after World War II, many Nazi war criminals--including Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Adolf Eichmann--went on the run. But self-styled "Nazi hunters" were determined to track them down. This disparate group included a French couple, American lawyer, German prosecutor, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, risking death to bring the SS...
18) Full ride
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
20) Deadfall
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Twin brothers Cory and Ty Bic, seventeen, search for an escape from criminals in the Pacific Northwest wilderness." --
When they encounter a dying deer in the middle of a remote mountain road with fresh tire tracks swerving down into a ravine, twin brothers Ty and Cory Bic know they have to help. Reaching the wrecked car, the vehicle appears empty, with signs that the driver escaped. They hear a sound coming from the trunk, and discover something...
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