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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bravely storming the beaches of Normandy. Holding down the front lines while under attack from the enemy. Battling enemy fighters through the streets of a wartorn city. Fans of combat video games enjoy these scenarios and many more. But what is the true story behind today's popular battle games? What was it really like to fight in World War II battles? Who were the real leaders and commanders during the world's biggest wars? How do today's soldiers...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times--the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
Author
Series
Minecraft woodsword chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Five young Minecraft players in the real world find themselves transported inside the game they love. But now it's not a game--and they will have to use everything they know to explore, build, and survive!"--
10) Jumanji
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
11) Action rhymes
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Includes such popular rhymes as "See-saw, Margery Daw," "Jack be nimble," and "Here is the church," with illustrations showing the actions that should be used with each one.
Author
Series
Minecraft woodsword chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Fourth Minecraft chapter book where Jodi, Ash, Morgan and their fellow Minecraft players go out into the real world to find clues to the identity of the mysterious and sinister Evoker King"--
Author
Series
Minecraft woodsword chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The adventures continue in the Woodsword Chronicles as five young Minecraft players find themselves transported inside the game they love--and now bats have invaded their school! Are creatures from the game leaking into their world? Needing to learn more, the players agree to leave their Minecraft castle and travel farther into the world they're visiting"--
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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.
Swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. But Tella isn't yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
16) The time hackers
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe. Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body. Thirty seconds later it disappears. It's not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then vanished.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In addition to the Solo game play mode (which pits each gamer up against up to 99 others in a real-time battle), the Duos mode allows gamers to team up with one friend in a quest to defeat all other gamers during a match. Meanwhile, the Squads mode allows teams of four players to enter into a match and work together as they battle against up to 96 other gamers. The Duos and Squads game play modes are permanent features built into the game, and theyve...
Author
Series
Adventure Zone volume Volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate call for help interrupts holiday celebrations at the Bureau of Balance, and sends Taako, Magnus and Merle on a high-stakes mission to find and reclaim a fourth deadly relic: a powerful transmutation stone, hidden somewhere in the depths of a floating arcane laboratory that's home to the Doctors Maureen and Lucas Miller. An unknown menace has seized control of the stone, and is using it to transform the lab into a virulent pink crystal...