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1) Silence
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After having overcome tremendous challenges to save a love that transcends the boundary between heaven and earth, Nora and Patch must face an adversary with the power to destroy all that they have worked for.
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Series
Description
Inseparables desde sus dias en la Universidad de Boston, hac aproximadamente diez anos, seis amigas formaron el club social de las chicas temerarias, na pequena sociedad de apoyo moral y admiracion. Se encuentran regularmente para chismear, comer juntas, y camparar notas en el complicado eamino de la vida y el amor.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Obsesionado por demostrarle a su padre que ya es todo un hombre, Amir se propone ganar la competición anual de cometas. Amir se aprovecha de la fidelidad sin límites de su amigo, Hassan, y comete una traición que los separará de forma definitiva.
Amir left Afghanistan as a boy and migrated to America, where he has become a successful novelist ; haunted by memories of his betrayal of a childhood friend, Hassan, Amir discovers that Hassan has been...
7) Hoyos
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.
10) Amos y Boris
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A Vlad le fascina un atuendo estupendo! Y como a sus vampíricos amigos, le encanta vestirse de negro de pies a cabeza. Pero, a diferencia de todos los demás vampiros, Vlad tiene un par de mejillas rosas que lo hacen lucir horripilantemente vivo. ¿Cómo le hará para encajar con las demás criaturas paranormales? Vlad, siempre a la moda, intenta esconder su rubor con hipnóticas capas y bufandas hechas a mano. Pero cuando descubre que es posible...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their farm from foreclosure, Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers that they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
La familia de Mari se encuentra a la deriva, con una gran necesidad de trabajo, pero se ve forzada a esconderse por miedo a que las autoridades los devuelvan a México y a la pobreza.La familia de Tyler lucha...
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 1192/3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Kate y Tully son mejores amigas inseparables, dos mujeres jóvenes que, a pesar de sus vidas muy diferentes, han jurado estar allí para siempre, han sido fieles a su promesa durante treinta años, hasta que los eventos y elecciones en sus vidas las separan.
Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years,...
20) Quarantine
Author
Series
Alone (James Phelan) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In the scant few weeks since an explosion decimated New York City, sixteen year old Jess has lived through unimaginable. Only two type of people are left: chasers, infected with a virus that turns them into bloodthirsty killing machines and those they hunt. Jess isn't waiting to be a victim. There's a collective of survivors in the city. Once he's located them, they can find some way out of Manhattan and Jesse can get help for those he's guiltily...