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102) The midnight twins
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, even as they dream, but their connection diminishes as they approach their thirteenth birthday, and one begins to see the future, the other the past, leading them to discover that a high school student they know is doing horrible things that place the twins, and others, in grave danger.
Author
Series
Ryan Quinn volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan learns that his missing parents are secret agents and that he must undertake a perilous mission to rescue them.
Ryan Quinn, the son of a United Nations worker, has traveled around the world but is finally settled at a great school in New York. But when his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan discovers his parents actually work with an underground organization that has performed...
105) The New Couple in 5B
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade. At first, the building and its eclectic...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant,...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unable to enlist due to a childhood injury, Noah Daniels is forced to watch the Revolution from his farm in New York--until a raid on his settlement thrusts him into one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, and ultimately, face to face with the enemy.
108) Desperation in death
Author
Series
In death novel volume 55
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In New York City, 2061, the Pleasure Academy abducts young girls and trains them for a life of sex slavery. Thirteen-year-old Dorian escapes and Dallas tries to expose a sex trafficking ring.
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a gripping new thriller that pits homicide detective Eve Dallas against a conspiracy of exploitation and evil..."--
New York City, 2061. The Pleasure Academy abducts young girls and trains them for a life of...
Author
Publisher
Callery Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
A badly injured Callery pear tree discovered under the rubble of the Twin Towers is nursed back to health over a number of years. She becomes known as the 9/11 Survivor Tree and is planted at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza in New York City.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Claire and Gene moved with their daughter Alice to Haeden, New York for a fresh start. In doing so, they unwittingly re-write the story of her life. Wendy White has strong roots in Haeden. Her story has a beginning and an end, but is missing the most important piece - the middle. What happened to Wendy White? Reporter Stacey Flynn who will chronicle Wendy White's existence from all the fragments she can find, and forge a path toward the end. But...
114) Subway story
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jessie, a subway car "born" in St. Louis, Missouri, enjoys many years as an important part of the New York City subway system, and after she is replaced by more modern cars she begins another important job.
115) Payback in death
Author
Series
In death volume 57
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops...
117) City of Glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. Plunge into the third installment novel in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly)—now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Glass is a Shadowhunters novel.
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home...
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home...
118) Football hero
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the mafia.
119) Yagua days
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
A Puerto Rican boy living in New York makes his first trip to Puerto Rico where he learns about yagua days.
Author
Series
Little House novels volume 4
Publisher
Harper & Bros
Pub. Date
1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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