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1) Split second
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
Author
Series
Puller volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Receiving intelligence from the Campus that the world's most threatening terrorist has been tracked to a specific location, Jack Ryan, Jr., the organization's latest recruits, and his cousins embark on a dangerous mission to capture him.
4) The chase
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The 1950 discovery of four bodies inside a sunken steam locomotive in a Montana lake gives way to the story of a murderous 1906 bank robber whose ruthlessness challenged Isaac Bell, a talented detective struggling to identify and capture the killer.
5) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who embarks on a quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the dragon Smaug, along with his dwarve companions and the wizard Gandalf, and unwittingly returns to the Shire with a Ring of Power.
8) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With Black Widow and and her fledgling hero-in-training Red Widow on mission in South America, the Red Room marks them for death and the two assassins are forced into a mission of vengeance.
10) Archenemies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Nova's double life is about to get a lot more complicated: As Insomnia, she is a full-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. She works with Adrian's patrol unit to protect the weak and maintain order in Gatlon City. As Nightmare, she is an Anarchist--a group of villains who are determined to destroy the Renegades. Nova wants vengeance against the so-called heroes who once failed her when she needed them...
11) A blade so black
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
By day, Alice juggles a slipping GPA, a high-maintenance best friend, and an overprotective mom, but by night she heads to the dark realm known as Wonderland to battle monstrous creatures to save her mentor.
12) Uncaged
Author
Series
The singular menace volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an act of animal rights activism at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them.
13) Aurora rising
Author
Series
The Aurora cycle volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
14) King of scars
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
No one knows what Nikolai Lantsov endured in his country's bloody civil war. Now enemies gather at his weakened borders, and the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Natasha Romanov, called the Black Widow, rescues a young girl, Ava, from Ivan, the man who once trained her as an assassin--and eight years later she is called upon to protect Ava from a threat from the past.
16) Wildcard
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
513 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...