Amanda Dolan
1) The noise
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"In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse ..."--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
3) Red queen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
4) Glass sword
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
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The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
Betraying her family, her best friend, and her whole community by saving a young outsider from drowning in the poisonous lake that protects her island home, Leelo nurses Jaren back to health, understanding that discovery could lead to unthinkable consequences for both of them.
6) Starfall
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"A displaced princess and her best-friend-with-benefits must take down an intergalactic mafia endangering the lives of the outer realm's settlers"--
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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Butternut Lake is an idyllic place--but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet... Sometimes life changes in an instant. Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. But now,...
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Zora Novak is framed for a crime she didn't commit--in a town obsessed with ghosts, will she be able to find the culprit and clear her name before it's too late?"--
9) Villain
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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In a world where monsters do battle with superpowered humans, Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo, and a new mutant with unmatched powers must stop a failed stand-up comic who can now control anyone with the power of his voice.
The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters. Into the chaos comes a villain with the power to control anyone with just the sound...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
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Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead.
11) Starflight
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Former high school enemies Solara Brooks and Doran Spaulding must team up when they find themselves aboard a renegade spaceship.
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"While photographing the Grand Tetons, Harper Reynolds unwittingly captures a murder on film. But when she loses the camera fleeing the scene, can she and rancher Heath McKade find the camera and solve the murder before the killer makes her his next victim?"--
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts....
14) Hero
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Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
While the Rockborn Gang tries to outmaneuver a new supervillain created by meteorite shrapnel, Malik investigates the Dark Watchers and the possibility that their reality is advanced, elaborate simulation.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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"A fabulous interweaving of fantasy, politics, and sisterhood—this unusual, tense tale will have you on the edge of your seat!"—#1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce
Red Queen meets House of Salt and Sorrow in Mara Rutherford's debut YA fantasy Crown of Coral and Pearl, which follows a young woman from a village on the sea who must impersonate her twin on land to save everyone she loves from a tyrannical...
Red Queen meets House of Salt and Sorrow in Mara Rutherford's debut YA fantasy Crown of Coral and Pearl, which follows a young woman from a village on the sea who must impersonate her twin on land to save everyone she loves from a tyrannical...
16) Tandem
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Read the book that Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the LEGEND trilogy called, "A fascinating world of parallel universes, sexy doppelgangers, and breathtaking action. Such a fun and addictive read!"
A captivating tale of rebellion and romance that spans parallel worlds.
Everything repeats.
You. Your best friend. Every person you know.
Many worlds, many lives—infinite possibilities.
Welcome
17) Caring Is Creepy
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother’s pill-popping boyfriend has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy, and inviting him home. When he’s forced to stay over in a storage space accessible through...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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"You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
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Joanna Howes left Martha’s Vineyard at the age of eighteen and moved to New York City to become a writer. Now in her thirties, she returns to care for her cranky, injured uncle Hank.
The Vineyard has a split personality—part elite summer resort, part working-class small town—and its two papers reflect the seasonal schism in their reporting. Needing income, Joanna freelances for one Island newspaper(the Journal),
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