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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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26 April 1986...01:18...Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds. Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop. Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride. In five minutes,...
2) Lockdown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
3) Execution
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East - with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc - controlled Eastern side. Then, just a month ago, Marta's brother became a victim of schiessbefehl, the standing order to fire upon anyone who dared pass into the West. With her family and nation both fractured, Marta will soon be faced with a promising - but dangerous - opportunity....
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Sensual romance. Jessimay "Jazzy" Morgan boards a westbound stagecoach, intent on building a respectable future with the money earned in Miss Veronica's Pleasure Emporium. Polite society is more taxing than she'd imagined, especially when her first thoughts of a handsome stranger center on the fee she'd likely get. When she finds him in her boardinghouse room, she can't resist a little playacting. During a sexy night with the marshal, her needs
...6) Solitary
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Escape from Furnace volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
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little bee books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt, threatening to destroy the city of Pompeii and everyone who lives there. Will new friends Thalia and Felix be able to escape, or are they destined to be buried under rock and ash? Thalia is excited to visit the bustling city of Pompeii, while Felix longs to leave it. As Thalia prepares to perform with her traveling troupe of actors, Felix is searching for a life of adventure away from his strict, politician father....
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Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"For twins Jo Jo and Sophie Dupre, Hurricane Katrina isn't the most important thing on their minds-not compared their mother's cancer treatments, Sophie's swim meet, and Jo Jo's upcoming coding competition. But when the storm intensifies and there's only one seat in their aunt's car, Mom has to be the one to evacuate. The twins and their father are stuck at home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The winds rise-and with them, the waves. The levees...
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Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The unsinkable Titanic is not quite what Sarah expected. Instead of dining with movie stars, she finds herself having more fun in steerage with the family of her new friend, Patrick, a bellboy. He shows her all the secrets that the greatest ship in the world has to offer, like heated swimming pools and first-class cabins. But then...disaster! The ship crashes into an iceberg, and water begins rushing into the lower decks. The Titanic is going down...
10) Death sentence
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained monster-making laboratories beneath the prison, with a death sentence, or worse, hanging over his head.
11) Fugitives
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 4
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
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Escape from a video game volume 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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"Cooper Hawke and the Secret of Phantom Island is the greatest video game nobody has ever played. The treasure-hunting adventure was supposed to set a new standard for gaming. Then, just one month before its release date, it fell off the face of the earth. Now, for the first time, you get a chance to play the mysterious game--from the inside. You are the hero in this innovative pick-your-plot story. As you outsmart enemies, solve puzzles, and explore...
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Escape from a video game volume 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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This is one book that will super-power the interest of any "I'd rather be gaming" kid. In this pick-your-path adventure, you join eight strangers inside a video game for a chance to win a million dollars. The challenge is simple: survive to the end, and you're rich. There's just one problem: A traitor is hiding among your group. One-by-one, crew members of the spaceship start disappearing. Can you find the traitor before it's too late?--Amazon.com....
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"...will grip the reader's total attention from beginning to end. Very highly recommended for school and community library..." -Midwest Book Review"...an entertaining and fast-paced read that guarantees to thrill any young reader's/gamer's wish to be a hero in a faraway time." -Historical Novel Society When nerd and gamer, Max Anderson, tries out an experimental computer game, he doesn't realize he's playing the ultimate history game, time-traveling...
15) Resolution
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When an earth exploration vessel explodes, a captain takes an escape pod with a handful of the crew. The pod goes off course and crashes on a desolate and uncharted planet. After an initial cataclysmic clash with locals, the captain is the only survivor. He encounters an ancient alien society that has forgotten their history and relies on strict laws to protect marginal natural resources. Those laws doom his shipmates but lead him on an ironic path...
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It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces, including a newly commissioned officer called Kreuz-a teenage boy who will grow up to become Warden Cross (the fearsome prison director who will one...
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Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end. — Rachel Hawthorne
How can I love her? Screw that. How can I fuck her after discovering all that is revealed about her?
Deacon Jacobs has been asking himself that question since the moment everything was uncovered. Torrance Miller strode her way into his shop and needled her way into his psyche. Past hurts come into play and have him questioning what...
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Ever since the accident, Mya Rhodes hasn't been the same. Her parents have tried everything, but nothing is getting through to her. When Mya's therapist recommends a local horse ranch for the summer, her family has reservations. Closing herself off from everyone she has known, how could being around strangers help? Knowing this may be her last chance, they send her and hope for a miracle.
19) Baby Blues
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Alice and Scott have everything, except the baby of their dreams. Barbara and Derek have nothing, except their baby. The two couples meet in Escape, CO, where any magical thing can happen and often does. Follow these couples as they fight to make things right, to love each other despite all odds, and to do the right things.
Baby Blues is book sixteen in the Escape from Reality series. It can also be a standalone novella. Escape into the beauty of...
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Be wary whom you give your heart to.
They may steal your soul.
Soul Less is the full length novel, based on Erin Lee's popular horror shorts, including ‘Praying Mantis’. Readers are calling it one that will "haunt my nightmares" and "scary as heck." Soul Less is sure to leave you with hairs standing on the back of your neck and wondering if people are really who they say they are.
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