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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter...
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Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and -- to...
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Golden Ocean volume 2
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Patrick O'brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore Anson's ill-fated voyage around the globe in 1740. With The Unknown Shore O'Brian returns to this rich source to recount the adventures of two young men--midshipman Jack Byron and naive surgeon's mate Tobias Barrow--aboard the Wager, which was parted from Anson's squadron by fierce storms and shipwrecked off the coast of Chile. In Jack and Toby, O'Brian...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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An old hound that's been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
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2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in...
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On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect--until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream.... In the earthquakeś aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge... Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial...
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