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Epic fails volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly successfully, detailing the many mishaps and misadventures that preceded it.
3) Fatemarked
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Pub. Date
2017]
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"The Hundred Years War has ravaged more than three generations of kings, queens, and citizens across the Four Kingdoms. Corrupt rulers dominate. Religious intolerance runs rampant. The cycle of vengeance continues to turn with the seasons. An ancient prophecy by a legendary oracle has been long forgotten. The prophecy promises the return of peace to the Four Kingdoms on the backs of a chosen few, the fatemarked, individuals marked at birth and blessed...
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"Elliott is grounded after having some trouble controlling his new super powers, but his punishment is short-lived when he's kidnapped by a band of teenage alien outlaws who believe he's the only one capable of destroying a planet-eating monster that's annihilating worlds"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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"Elliott has to follow a time-trotting trouble-maker and can't mess with history or reveal his identity, but his own existence is up for grabs when his parents hate each other and a mysterious villain is searching for a powerful cosmic object that threatens the universe"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"Elliott's confidence is shattered after making a huge mistake during a do-or-die mission, but a planet-eating monster, a collapsing multiverse, and a quest to replace the Orb of Oblivion force him to put his retirement plans on hold"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"When a new law is passed where all Meta heroes are required to surrender themselves to the government, the Freedom Force resists and gets captured by the military, and Elliott is the Metas' only hope to get the law reversed"--
11) Soulmarked
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Fatemarked epic volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Despite the efforts of several of the fatemarked, turmoil and violence continue to plague the Four Kingdoms... To the north, Annise Gäric ventures into the Hinterlands to discover the truth of the Sleeping Knights, who may be the only hope for her kingdom. Meanwhile, Tarin Sheary travels to Darrin in a desperate bid to repel the eastern forces amassing at Crow's Nest. Unbeknownst to either of them, a new threat rises in Blackstone. In the west,...
12) Truthmarked
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Fatemarked epic volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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"The Hundred Years War rages on, with tensions between kingdoms growing ever more strained. While Annise Gäric and her forces march on Castle Hill to retake the northern throne, her cousin, Rhea Loren, wages a naval war against Blackstone. Meanwhile, Roan Loren and Gwendolyn Storm struggle to breach the gnarled, vine-choked undergrowth of the Tangle in their quest to reach Knight's End and learn more of the true purpose of the fatemarked. In the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"Elliott is labeled as a menace to society after accidentally damaging Keystone City's subway system while stopping a pair of villains, but before he can defend himself, he's arrested by a squad of Intergalactic Paladins and has to prove his innocence"--
14) UFOs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about UFOs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
17) Bigfoot
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Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Bigfoot. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"-- Provided by the publisher.
19) War and peace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
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'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...