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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description 1634: The Galileo Affair Flint, Eric 86429 EN UG 6.5 31.0 F 189329 N N - - - Mike Stearns, leader of a group of West Virginians accidentally plunged into seventeenth-century Germany in the midst of the Thirty Years War, spearheads the formation of the United States of Europe. The coauthor is Andrew Dennis. The Abduction Newth, Mette 6030 EN UG 6.0 8.0 F 50015 N N - - N Two Inuit young people are abducted by traders, and another girl awaits the return of her father who is on a trade mission. This story is based on the actual kidnapping of Inuit Eskimos by European traders in the 17th century. Abyss Denning, Troy 132766 EN UG 6.7 17.0 F 104138 N N - - - Sojourning among the mysterious Aing- Tii monks has left Luke and his son Ben with no real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they seek lie in the forbidden reaches of the distant Maw Cluster. Book #3 Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene 102 EN MG 6.6 10.0 F 61778 N N - N N A moving story of the Civil War and one boy who grew up at home. Across Frozen Seas Wilson, John 45006 EN MG 6.0 5.0 F 30279 N N - - - This book explores the vast territory of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, travelling aboard the ill-fated vessel H.M.S. Erebus from London en route to Canada's frozen and uncharted north. Across the Lines Reeder, Carolyn 18801 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 58885 N N - - - Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon, witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War. Across the Wall: A Tale of the Nix, Garth 88997 EN MG 6.5 12.0 F 72181 N N - - - This book is a collection of fantasy short Abhorsen and Other Stories stories plus a novella that is set in the world of the Abhorsen trilogy.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Adam of the Road Gray, Elizabeth Janet 1 EN MG 6.5 9.0 F 57357 N N - N N This book describes the adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.

Adrenalin Ride Withers, Pam 86696 EN MG+ 6.0 7.0 F 40814 N N - - - It's summer vacation, and when Ron, a former guide with Sam's Adventure Tours, invites Jake and Peter to help develop a mountain bike trail in British Columbia, near the American border, the boys can't believe their luck, or so they think. Book #3 The Adventures of Blue Avenger Howe, Norma 29526 EN UG 6.2 7.0 F 43543 N N - - - On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or does he?--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world. The Adventures of Huckleberry Twain, Mark 501 EN MG 6.6 18.0 F 105590 N N - N N Huck and Jim encounter life on the Finn (Unabridged) Mississippi in one of the great works of American Literature. After This McDermott, Alice 115276 EN UG 6.9 15.0 F 89280 N N - - - John and Mary Keane and their four children battle the tumultuous political, social, and spiritual upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s. The Alchemist's Daughter Kernaghan, Eileen 82805 EN MG 6.5 7.0 F 44205 N N - - - This story is about Sidonie, an intelligent, spunky heroine whose task is to save England by "creating" gold at Elizabethan Glastonbury. The Alchemyst Scott, Michael 115134 EN MG 6.4 14.0 F 85926 N N - - - While working at summer jobs, 15-year- old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in a deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of secret formulas. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Alice I Have Been Benjamin, Melanie 136782 EN UG 6.5 16.0 F 98957 N N - - - Nearing her 81st birthday, Alice Liddell Hargreaves regrets that her life has been defined by the adventures she had 70 years ago after falling down the rabbit hole and wonders how she can leave a more profound legacy for her children and grandchildren. Alice, I Think Juby, Susan 69832 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 62118 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories Vande Velde, Vivian 109690 EN MG 6.2 6.0 F 38507 N N - - - This book presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry. All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich 701 EN UG 6.0 10.0 F 61922 N N - N N Bewildered German soldiers fight and Maria suffer through the chaos of World War I. Allies Golden, Christie 138958 EN UG 6.0 18.0 F 114303 N N - - - Luke Skywalker and Ben must face the fleet of Sith frigates summoned by Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, but the rising of an ancient evil will force Jedi and Sith to fight side-by-side. Meanwhile, Han and Leia attempt to rescue imprisoned Jedi. Book #5 The Amber Spyglass Pullman, Philip 44562 EN UG 6.7 26.0 F 156664 N N - - N Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. Book #3 American Dragons Yep, Laurence 11545 EN UG 6.3 9.0 F 54944 N N - - - Stories, poems, and dramatic pieces that capture the crises and questions of Asian American teenagers. American Tall Tales Osborne, Mary Pope 70185 EN MG 6.1 3.0 F 19251 N N - - N This collection of tall tales includes such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Amethyst Ring O'Dell, Scott 9999 EN MG 6.1 10.0 F 62956 N N - - N This is the conclusion to the story of Julian Escobar, a young seminarian who has adventures among the Mayan Aztecs and Incas. Amy and Isabelle Strout, Elizabeth 69115 EN UG 6.6 19.0 F 112579 N N - - - This is a story of a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. Anahita's Woven Riddle Sayres, Meghan 112883 EN UG 6.0 12.0 F 77370 N N - - - In Iran, a young girl with three suitors Nuttall gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers. The Ancient One Barron, T.A. 6685 EN UG 6.1 14.0 F 87356 N N - - N While helping her Great-Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest. Book #3 And in the Morning Wilson, John 69405 EN UG 6.1 7.0 F 43779 N N - - - Jim Hay is fifteen, thinks war is a glorious adventure and cannot wait for his turn to fight. While his longing for adventure is replaced by a basic need to survive, the final tragic outcome is one he never dreamed of. The Andromeda Strain Crichton, Michael 17803 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 66103 N N - - N Scientists race against the clock to find a way to stop a very deadly plague from outer space before it infects everyone. Angel Isle Dickinson, Peter 117926 EN UG 6.3 26.0 F 158937 N N - - - While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Angel Time Rice, Anne 134245 EN UG 6.5 14.0 F 82867 N N - - - Contract killer Toby O'Dare encounters a seraph who offers him the chance to save lives instead of destroy them. He goes back in time to thirteenth-century England, where he begins a dangerous quest for salvation. The plot contains violence. Angle of Repose Stegner, Wallace 10829 EN UG 6.9 35.0 F 205090 N N - - - An enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. Animal Architects Nicholson, John 107256 EN MG 6.8 1.0 F 5948 N N - - - This introduction to the various animals that build structures for protection, food gathering, storage, and nesting provides information on what materials in nature they use to tunnel, bore wood, weave, and mound. Anna of Byzantium Barrett, Tracy 32221 EN MG 6.4 8.0 F 51531 N N - - N In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne of the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John. Anson's Way Schmidt, Gary D. 30835 EN MG 6.2 8.0 F 49188 N N - - - While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master places him in conflict with the law. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet Proulx, Joanne 127510 EN UG 6.3 16.0 F 101127 N N - - - Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death. The plot profanity, sexually explicit language, violence, and drug use. Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 108707 EN UG 6.3 22.0 F 133141 N N - - - Set on Earth some eighty years from now, this is the first volume in a pre- Shannara series that continues the story of the author's Word/Void trilogy.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Art of Uncontrolled Flight: A Ponders, Kim 102353 EN UG 6.1 8.0 F 46626 N N - - - Annie Shaw's dreams of flying takes a Novel dramatic turn when, as an Air Force pilot, she is deployed to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the Gulf War. Ash Lo, Malinda 133262 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 66928 N N - - - In this version of the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his followers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves. Asta in the Wings Watson, Jan 129627 EN UG 6.1 14.0 F 84909 N N - - - Seven-year-old Asta grows up in rural Elizabeth Maine in the late 1970s, where she and her sickly nine-year-old brother, Orion, are kept locked in their house by their crazy mother, who fills their heads with tales of the plague-ravaged wasteland waiting outside. Asteroid Impact Henderson, Douglas 44939 EN MG 6.4 1.0 F 3411 N N - - - This book explores the theory that the collision of an asteroid with Earth ended the Cretaceous Period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. At the Sign of the Sugared Plum Hooper, Mary 71749 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 42808 N N - - - In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape. Atherton: The House of Power Carman, Patrick 114826 EN MG 6.1 12.0 F 75028 N N - - - Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals secrets about Atherton, his strictly divided world, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Avenger McNab, Andy 126575 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 60565 N N - - - Seventeen-year-old Danny, his grandfather, who is an ex-SAS explosives expert, and friend Elena set out to stop the evil computer hacker who is sending teenaged suicide bombers to their deaths around the world. The coauthor is Robert Rigby. Book #3 The Baboon King Quintana, Anton 34714 EN MG 6.4 8.0 F 48029 N N - - - Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Morengáru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons. Backlash Allston, Aaron 138959 EN UG 6.1 16.0 F 97462 N N - - - As a strange plague of madness continues to influence the young Jedi causing destruction across the galaxy, Luke and Ben Skywalker navigate a variety of dangers to chase down a masterless Sith apprentice. Book #4 The Bad Beginning Snicket, Lemony 41281 EN MG 6.4 4.0 F 24130 N N - - N After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. #1 Bag of Bones King, Stephen 31236 EN UG 6.0 32.0 F 198909 N N - - - Grieving the loss of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan returns to their lakeside getaway only to encounter ghostly visitations, escalating terrors, and vindictive millionaires. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Mignola, Mike 125007 EN UG 6.8 13.0 F 78928 N N - - - On the battlefields of World War I, Lord Soldier and the Vampire Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire, unleashing a violent plague that leaves Baltimore fighting a battle against evil and relying on the aid of three friends. The coauthor is Christopher Golden. Bambert's Book of Missing Stories Jung, Reinhardt 82153 EN MG 6.1 3.0 F 20952 N N - - N A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him. The Barefoot Book of Stories from Husain, Shahrukh 35382 EN MG 6.1 3.0 F 19892 N N - - - These fascinating, dramatic, and child- the Opera friendly opera tales are illustrated with flamboyant and breath-taking illustrations. A comprehensive discography is included. The Battle for Skandia Flanagan, John 121443 EN MG 6.7 14.0 F 81299 N N - - - After Evanlyn is captured by a Temujai warrior, the kingdom of Skandia joins forces with rival kingdom Araluen to defeat a common enemy. Book #4 Bearers of the Black Staff Brooks, Terry 141095 EN UG 6.1 21.0 F 130460 N N - - - Sider Ament discovers unknown predators stalking the valley and realizes the magic that has protected the few survivors of humankind has faded, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Book #1 The Beasts of Clawstone Castle Ibbotson, Eva 106527 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 47333 N N - - N While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of McKinley, Robin 7003 EN UG 6.2 11.0 F 68706 N N - N N Beauty grows to love the Beast at Beauty and the Beast whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Before the Creeks Ran Red Reeder, Carolyn 66720 EN MG 6.5 14.0 F 86972 N N - - - Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War. A Beggar at the Gate Ali, Thalassa 87227 EN UG 6.9 16.0 F 94538 N N - - - In 19th century British India, Mariana is an outcast among the English after her ill-fated marriage to a native-born man scandalizes Calcutta society. She becomes involved in politics in the Punjab and saves her husband's life after he is shot. Behaving Bradley Nodelman, Perry 35028 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 58863 N N - - - Recruited by his best friend to gather student input for the proposed Code of Conduct at his high school, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous bullies, spineless student leaders, and personal agendas. Bella at Midnight Stanley, Diane 106196 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 56757 N N - - N In this book, Bella, who is raised by peasants discovers that she is actually the daughter of a knight and finds herself caught up in a terrible plot that will change her life and the kingdom forever. Beloved Morrison, Toni 8652 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 95418 N N - - - In post-Civil War Ohio, the past continues to haunt the ex-slave Sethe and the surviving members of her family. Ben and Me Lawson, Robert 208 EN MG 6.9 3.0 F 14940 N N - N N Amos the mouse observes and records the life of his great friend, Benjamin Franklin. Best Shorts: Favorite Short Stories Avi 110336 EN MG 6.1 13.0 F 79662 N N - - - Featuring loyal pets, rogue waves, for Sharing ghosts who use cell phones, and young people caught up in events beyond their control, these stories are written by some of the most entertaining and esteemed authors of children's literature.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Beyond the Valley of Thorns Carman, Patrick 101196 EN MG 6.2 8.0 F 51659 N N - - N When thirteen-year-old Alexa embarks on a mysterious quest, she finds her old friends Yipes the little man, Murphy the squirrel, Odessa the wolf, and Squire the hawk have been designated to help her. Big Girl Small DeWoskin, Rachel 144059 EN UG 6.0 16.0 F 100858 N N - - - Judy, a 3' 9" tall 16-year-old with a phenomenal singing voice, should be the star of her performing arts high school. Instead, she is hiding out from the national media due a leaked videotape of a rape. The plot contains profanity and sexual violence. The Bingo Palace Erdrich, Louise 68900 EN UG 6.5 14.0 F 83993 N N - - - At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother on the reservation. There, he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his first true love. The Birchbark House Erdrich, Louise 36398 EN MG 6.1 7.0 F 43840 N N - N N Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. Bird Murphy, Rita 125318 EN MG 6.2 5.0 F 30734 N N - - - Miranda, a small girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she believes rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend seeks to escape. Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Winspear, Jacqueline 102700 EN UG 6.2 16.0 F 100854 N N - - - Called in to investigate the Novel disappearance of a rich man's 18-year- old daughter, Maisie Dobbs senses tensions in the man's household and discovers there are many reasons that the young woman might have left home. Book #2 The Birthday of the Infanta Russell, P. Craig 103002 EN MG 6.1 1.0 F 4335 N N - - - This book presents the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde in a comic book format.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Black Canary Curry, Jane Louise 86093 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 52062 N N - - - The son of two musicians, James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well. Black Horses for the King McCaffrey, Anne 14453 EN UG 6.9 8.0 F 48613 N N - - N Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known as King Arthur. He uses his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle. Blackbird House Hoffman, Alice 102366 EN UG 6.0 9.0 F 55210 N N - - - This book presents a collection of interconnecting narratives about a number of interesting and intriguing people who lived at Blackbird House in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during the British occupation in the eighteenth century. Bless the Beasts & Children Swarthout, Glendon 5259 EN UG 6.3 6.0 F 37588 N N - N N Ostracized by their peers at Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona, six teenage boys from dysfunctional homes band together to free a herd of buffalo to be used as game in a state-sanctioned guided hunt. Blood and Chocolate Klause, Annette 18446 EN UG 6.4 9.0 F 55923 N N - - - Having fallen for a human boy, a Curtis beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations. Blood Red Horse Grant, K.M. 88590 EN MG 6.3 13.0 F 77933 N N - - - A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Blue Diary Hoffman, Alice 53682 EN UG 6.4 15.0 F 94013 N N - - - This book is about facing the unthinkable. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful? The Blue Sword McKinley, Robin 106 EN MG 6.8 17.0 F 101620 N N - - N Harry, bored with her sheltered life on the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. Blueprint Kerner, Charlotte 45153 EN UG 6.5 7.0 F 43285 N N - - - Siri Sellin, one of the first human clones, writes a bitter memoir of her childhood as the daughter of a famous and self- absorbed composer. The Body Finder Derting, Kimberly 136607 EN UG 6.8 13.0 F 79343 N N - - - High-school junior Violet becomes a target when she uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing their town. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and violence. Book #1 The Boggart Cooper, Susan 7042 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 46762 N N - N N After visiting her family's castle in Scotland and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. The Bonemender Bennett, Holly 102329 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 54673 N N - - - Gabrielle is a bonemender of extraordinary talent. Between her work as a healer and her duties as one of the royal family of Verdeau, her life is busy, comfortable, and predictable until the day a stranger seeking help arrives at her gate. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Boneshaker Milford, Kate 137437 EN MG 6.0 14.0 F 86347 N N - - - When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and learns that her love of automata and other machines makes her the only one who can set things right. The Book of the Lion Cadnum, Michael 36682 EN UG 6.9 8.0 F 50173 N N - - - In twelfth-century England, seventeen- year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart. Born Again Kerney, Kelly 113732 EN UG 6.4 18.0 F 111589 N N - - - While reading Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, hoping to prove it wrong, fourteen-year-old Mel uncovers a family secret that changes her views on her family, her church, and most vitally, her assumptions about God and science. The Brain Finds a Leg Chatterton, Martin 132417 EN MG+ 6.3 8.0 F 47896 N N - - - In Farrago Bay, Australia, thirteen-year- old Sheldon is recruited by a new student, Theo Brain, to help investigate a murder, which is tied not only to bizarre animal behavior but also to a diabolical plot to alter human intelligence. The Breakup Bible Kantor, Melissa 113963 EN UG 6.1 9.0 F 54599 N N - - - Jen is having a great junior year, until her boyfriend Max breaks up with her. Jen is so depressed that a friend buys her Dr. Emerson's THE BREAKUP BIBLE, claiming that if she follows a few basic commandments, she will get over the breakup very quickly. The Bride Price Emecheta, Buchi 32272 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 67734 N N - - - This is the love story of an Ibo girl and the son of a former slave.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Bride's Farewell Rosoff, Meg 135738 EN UG 6.9 8.0 F 48878 N N - - - Pell, having left home on her wedding day with the intention of finding a more fulfilling life, travels an emotional journey through a world of Gypsies, lost things, and unlikely love. The plot contains sexual references and violence. A Brief History of Montmaray Cooper, Michelle 133139 EN MG+ 6.5 12.0 F 71543 N N - - - On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country in the Bay of Biscay, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of World War II. The Brief History of the Dead Brockmeier, Kevin 108718 EN UG 6.9 14.0 F 82996 N N - - - The City, where the recently departed reside as long as they are remembered by the living, is home to Luka, Coleman, Marion, and Phillip, all of whom are remembered by Laura Byrd, whose own time is running out in Antarctica. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Díaz, Junot 122410 EN UG 6.8 16.0 F 92718 N N - - - Overweight and nerdy, Oscar lives with Wao his mother and sister in New Jersey and dreams of becoming a renowned author and finding true love. Unfortunately, a family curse stands in the way. The plot contains graphic adult language and situations. Brilliance of the Moon Hearn, Lian 85907 EN UG 6.5 17.0 F 103830 N N - - - Takeo, secretly wed to his beloved Kaede, sets out to help her reclaim her lands and avenge the deaths of his biological and adoptive fathers, all the while aware of the prophecy that he must fight five battles, four to win and one to lose. The Bronze Cauldron McCaughrean, 82577 EN MG 6.0 5.0 F 30536 N N - - - This book contains retellings of twenty- Geraldine seven myths and legends from around the world, including the story of the Indian boy who became the Buddha, and the German tale of Dr. Faust, a man who sells his soul to the devil.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Bronze Pen Snyder, Zilpha 120219 EN MG 6.0 7.0 F 44187 N N - - - With her father's failing health and the Keatley family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers. The Brothers' War: Civil War Lewis, J. Patrick 119275 EN MG 6.5 0.5 F 2754 N N - - - This book presents poems that adopt Voices in Verse the voices of soldiers, commanders, slaves, and civilians during the Civil War, pairing each poem with a period photo. It also includes facts about the conflict. The Burning Bridge Flanagan, John 106349 EN MG 6.3 12.0 F 71840 N N - - N Will is forced to overcome his own self- doubt as he tries to stop the rebel warlord Morgarath from ambushing the King's army. Book #2 Call It Courage Sperry, Armstrong 15 EN MG 6.2 3.0 F 19326 N N N N N An inspiring youth overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. Call Me by Your Name Aciman, André 115277 EN UG 6.1 12.0 F 76996 N N - - - Seventeen-year-old Elio finds himself powerfully attracted to Oliver, a young American, and the two young men soon fall into a romantic and sexual relationship that influences their lives. The plot contains sexually explicit situations. Cane River Tademy, Lalita 66559 EN UG 6.5 20.0 F 120962 N N - - - On a Creole plantation on the banks of Louisiana's Cane River, four generations of astonishing women battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. Cannery Row Steinbeck, John 16707 EN UG 6.0 8.0 F 49512 N N - N N This earthy book portrays the lives of benign bums and social outcasts who, unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, discover rewards unknown in a more traditional society.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Hart, James V. 102334 EN MG 6.8 13.0 F 79207 N N - - - This book describes the youthful Notorious Youth adventures of J.M. Barrie's classic character, Captain Hook, from his days at Eton to his voyages on the high sea. Captain Jenny & the Sea of Thornton, Duncan 56226 EN MG 6.7 12.0 F 69125 N N - - - Jenny watched Tom leave to explore the Wonders Eaves of the World at the beginning of KALIFAX, so she does feel an adventure of her own is overdue. But as Jenny commands a ship exploring the Sea of Wonders Found and Forgotten, she might be in over her head. The Captive O'Dell, Scott 82892 EN MG 6.5 9.0 F 51649 N N - - - As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition. The Carved Box Chan, Gillian 53357 EN MG 6.1 9.0 F 54057 N N - - - Callum is unprepared for the grinding physical labor of farm work. His only source of comfort is Dog. She seems to know all his secret wishes and fears. With Dog by his side, Callum gains the courage to face life in the New World. The Case of the Missing Marquess: Springer, Nancy 104964 EN MG 6.6 6.0 F 37924 N N - - N Enola Holmes, much younger sister of An Enola Holmes Mystery detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother. Book #1 Cassandra's Sister Bennett, Veronica 116704 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 59866 N N - - - Young Jane Austen, or Jenny as she is called, is a girl with a head full of questions that no one seems able to answer. Alive with romance and humor, this novel tells of the writer's coming-of- age. Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman, Karen 8693 EN UG 6.4 8.0 F 47808 N N - N N The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Caucasia Senna, Danzy 35202 EN UG 6.1 23.0 F 141199 N N - - - Birdie, who takes after her white mother, and Cole, who takes after her black father, become separated when the seventies black-power politics divide their parents. The Center of the World Steinhöfel, Andreas 87467 EN UG 6.4 18.0 F 111272 N N - - - As he works through his often difficult relationships with his single mother, distant twin sister, his first boyfriend, and an odd assortment of friends, a teenage boy learns about the wounds and healing brought by love. Charmed Thirds McCafferty, Megan 108732 EN UG 6.0 17.0 F 106456 N N - - - This third book about Jessica Darling's life, loves, and adventures find her navigating the uncertain college years at Columbia University. The Children of Húrin Tolkien, J.R.R. 114630 EN MG 6.9 12.0 F 70442 N N - - - This story is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked but were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. This book was edited by Christopher Tolkien. Children of the Dragon: Selected Garland, Sherry 49775 EN MG 6.1 2.0 F 13606 N N - - - This book is a collection of Vietnamese Tales from Vietnam folktales. The Chosen Potok, Chaim 5979 EN UG 6.6 15.0 F 91589 N N - N N This story of Jewish family life reveals optimism and good humor. Christine King, Stephen 18927 EN UG 6.6 30.0 F 183239 N N - - - A high school senior's excitement over buying and repairing a 1958 Plymouth Fury turns into a deadly obsession when the car, Christine, takes on a life of her own. The plot contains profanity and violence. The City of Gold and Lead Christopher, John 6661 EN MG 6.5 8.0 F 49892 N N - - N Three teenage boys compete to gain entry to an extraterrestrial city. City of Light Belfer, Lauren 44547 EN UG 6.9 31.0 F 180536 N N - - - Louisa Barrett, headmistress of a girls' school, tells the story of the culture and conflicts of life during 1901 in Buffalo, New York.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Cleopatra Confesses Meyer, Carolyn 144171 EN MG+ 6.4 10.0 F 62415 N N - - - Princess Cleopatra, the third and favorite daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love. The Cliff House Strangler Tallman, Shirley 122149 EN UG 6.9 18.0 F 104452 N N - - - Nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson attends a séance at San Francisco's Cliff House in the hopes of getting her mind off her failing private practice and soon finds herself thrown into a murder mystery when several of the other guests turn up dead. Coal Black Horse: A Novel Olmstead, Robert 116383 EN UG 6.7 11.0 F 63495 N N - - - Relying on his horse as his protector, fourteen-year-old Robey Childs travels into the battlefields of the Civil War on a mission to find his father and is forever changed by the destruction he sees. Coalescent Baxter, Stephen 87229 EN UG 6.9 30.0 F 177052 N N - - - George Poole travels to Rome after learning that he has a twin sister Rosa and finds her living in an enigmatic cult under the city. The mystery deepens when he discovers the disturbing truth that the cult is the next link in the chain of evolution. The Cobra Event Preston, Richard 29347 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 111862 N N - - - A lone terrorist attacks New York City with a genetically engineered virus and Dr. Alice Austen tries to stop him. Code Orange Cooney, Caroline B. 101282 EN MG+ 6.2 8.0 F 47721 N N - - N While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and could infect all of New York City.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Code Talker: A Novel About the Bruchac, Joseph 85819 EN MG 6.4 9.0 F 56150 N N - - N After being taught in a boarding school Navajo Marines of World War Two run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles 21639 EN UG 6.9 27.0 F 161511 N N - N N A confederate soldier wounded and disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg decides to walk back to his home. The Collected Stories of Katherine Porter, Katherine 86377 EN UG 6.7 34.0 F 201925 N N - - - This collection of short stories by Anne Porter Anne Katherine Anne Porter features four stories not available elsewhere in book form and includes such classics as PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, THE LEAVING TOWER, and FLOWERING JUDAS. Companions of the Night Vande Velde, Vivian 14457 EN UG 6.1 9.0 F 55173 N N - - - When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. Confessions of a Backup Dancer Shaw, Tucker 83247 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 56170 N N - - - Kelly Kimbal lands a job as a back-up dancer for pop diva, Darcy Barnes, but is soon fired by Darcy's overbearing mother until Darcy develops the courage to tell her mother off and bring Kelly back into the show. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Maguire, Gregory 67491 EN UG 6.2 15.0 F 91985 N N - - - This book retells the story of Cinderella from her stepsister's point of view. Confinement Brown, Carrie 84493 EN UG 6.2 16.0 F 96071 N N - - - Arthur Henning arrives at the Duvalls' country estate hoping to rebuild his life and forget his painful experiences in Vienna, but when his son impregnates his boss's daughter, Arthur is forced from his solitude to protect his unborn grandchild.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Consolation: A Novel Redhill, Michael 114415 EN UG 6.4 19.0 F 114003 N N - - - In an interweaving of two centuries, this book unfolds the story of immigrant photographer Jem Hallam's life alongside historian David Hollis and his wife Marianne's search for a ship that sank in the city's harbor a century and a half ago. A Conspiracy of Kings Turner, Megan 137746 EN MG 6.6 13.0 F 76812 N N - - - Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Whalen Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire. Book #4 Coram Boy Gavin, Jamila 54841 EN MG 6.3 14.0 F 83673 N N - - - In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music. Court Duel Smith, Sherwood 55100 EN UG 6.6 13.0 F 76066 N N - - - Brought to court by a mysterious letter, teenage Countess Meliara finds herself the subject of all sorts of courtly intrigues and attentions, including those of the deposed king's sister and an ardent, secret suitor. Crooked Little Heart Lamott, Anne 55929 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 114649 N N - - - This book is an absorbing portrait of a family as they deal with the death of a beloved family friend, the pregnancy of a young teen, and the world of tournament tennis. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Carter, Ally 118772 EN MG+ 6.1 9.0 F 54706 N N - - - Genius Cammie Morgan begins the spring semester of her sophomore year with many questions about her ex- boyfriend, mother, and the last term and intends to use her spying abilities to have them answered. Book #2

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Crossing the Panther's Path Alder, Elizabeth 60430 EN UG 6.1 9.0 F 58773 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Billy Calder, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory. Crown Duel Smith, Sherwood 21569 EN UG 6.1 11.0 F 66273 N N - - - To fulfill their father's dying wish, Meliara and her brother Branaric organize a revolution against a greedy king. Cry, The Beloved Country Paton, Alan 12780 EN UG 6.2 14.0 F 83774 N N - N N This book is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. A Cure for Dreams Gibbons, Kaye 75996 EN UG 6.3 5.0 F 32112 N N - - - The hopes and dreams of four generations of Southern women are revealed in the stories they pass down from grandmother, to mother, to daughter, to granddaughter. Curse of the Night Wolf Stewart, Paul 125632 EN MG 6.7 5.0 F 28121 N N - - - Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and expensive furs. The coauthor is Chris Riddell. Book #1 The Curse of the Wendigo Yancey, Rick 140594 EN UG 6.1 15.0 F 95911 N N - - - In 1888, 12-yr-old Will journals his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that gorges itself on humans. The plot contains graphic violence. Book #2

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Cybele's Secret Marillier, Juliet 125606 EN MG+ 6.1 20.0 F 124599 N N - - - Eighteen-year-old Paula and her father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed, but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want the item as well. Dandelion Wine Bradbury, Ray 528 EN UG 6.0 10.0 F 64709 N N - - N The summer of '28 was a vintage summer for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. It was a magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve- year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding. Dante's Daughter Heuston, Kimberley 76253 EN UG 6.3 14.0 F 88024 N N - - - In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women. The Dark Hills Divide Carman, Patrick 86676 EN MG 6.1 10.0 F 59679 N N - - N Twelve-year-old Alexa first finds a secret passageway out of the walled city of Bridewell and then finds a stone that lets her understand the speech of animals. With that knowledge, she discovers a planned attack on the city and helps stop it. The Dark Is Rising Cooper, Susan 109 EN MG 6.2 13.0 F 82143 N N - N N On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. Book #2 A Darkling Plain Reeve, Philip 115636 EN MG+ 6.7 23.0 F 138543 N N - - - While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Daughter of the Forest Marillier, Juliet 52013 EN UG 6.2 32.0 F 199346 N N - - - Sorcha has known only peace and happiness. But that joy is destroyed when her father is bewitched by the woman who has won his heart and her brothers are bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. Daughter's Keeper Waldman, Ayelet 75510 EN UG 6.0 18.0 F 114534 N N - - - When Olivia makes a terrible mistake, she is forced to turn to the mother who has never come through for her before, but without her mother's help, Olivia's future hangs in the balance. Death Cloud Lane, Andrew 142831 EN MG+ 6.3 12.0 F 72409 N N - - - In 1868, with his army officer father posted to India and his mother mysteriously "unwell," 14-yr-old Sherlock is sent to stay with his uncle and aunt Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder. The plot contains violence. Book #1 Death in the Air Peacock, Shane 123263 EN MG 6.2 10.0 F 60377 N N - - - While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock witnesses the death of a trapeze artist and knows that foul play is afoot. Case #2 A Death in the Family Agee, James 10835 EN UG 6.1 16.0 F 98465 N N - N N Jay Follett's family struggles to cope with his death in an auto accident. Death of a Salesman Miller, Arthur 5980 EN UG 6.2 5.0 F 28962 N N - N N A not-too-successful traveling salesman rears his sons on platitudes to his and their undoing. Death Sentence: Escape from Smith, Alexander 145215 EN MG+ 6.7 12.0 F 73918 N N - - - After his failed attempt to escape from Furnace Gordon Furnace Penitentiary, Alex struggles to survive the bloodstained laboratories beneath where monsters are manufactured, with a death sentence, or worse, hanging over his head. Book #3

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Death-Defying Pepper Roux McCaughrean, 135564 EN MG 6.4 10.0 F 60900 N N - - - Having been raised believing he will die Geraldine before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away on his fourteenth birthday in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes another identity, and continues to try to outrun death, no matter the consequences. Deathwatch White, Robb 755 EN UG 6.0 7.0 F 46401 N N - N N An honest, courageous, young man finds himself battling for survival against a harsh desert environment and a cynical business tycoon. December Winthrop, Elizabeth 127512 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 93290 N N - - - Wilson and Ruth Carter, having spent Hartley the past nine months trying to understand why their eleven-year-old daughter, Isabelle, suddenly quit speaking, are forced to face the possibility that this may not be an adolescent phase. The Declaration Malley, Gemma 120007 EN MG+ 6.2 11.0 F 69449 N N - - - In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her. Deep in the Mountains: An Cheng, Terrence 114831 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 58777 N N - - - In 1992, when Master Zhu was 100 Encounter with Zhu Qizhan years old, fifteen-year-old Tony Chung learns from him not only what it means to be a serious artist, but also what it means to be a disciplined and caring person. Demon in My View Atwater-Rhodes, 47257 EN MG+ 6.4 4.0 F 26782 N N - - - Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola Amelia discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches. Book #2

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Departures Cook, Lorna J. 102559 EN UG 6.0 13.0 F 82045 N N - - - The VanderZees seem like an average American family. Yet in this wryly comic novel, the individuals in this eccentric clan dwell in richly imagined worlds of their own. The Dew Breaker Danticat, Edwidge 78458 EN UG 6.7 10.0 F 60082 N N - - - This book explores the life of a torturer whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality. Dogboy Russell, Christopher 106283 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 43470 N N - - - In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with the manor's prized mastiffs, to France where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost. Dolores: Seven Stories About Her Brooks, Bruce 59163 EN UG 6.1 4.0 F 21837 N N - - - A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old. Donorboy: A Novel Halpin, Brendan 86484 EN UG 6.3 9.0 F 55745 N N - - - Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew. Doomed Queen Anne Meyer, Carolyn 63021 EN UG 6.9 9.0 F 52602 N N - - N In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet. The Door in the Wall De Angeli, 25 EN MG 6.2 4.0 F 27565 N N - N N A crippled boy in fourteenth-century Marguerite England proves his courage and earns recognition from the king.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Dorp Dead Cunningham, Julia 79495 EN MG 6.0 3.0 F 17238 N N - - - When a lonely boy leaves an orphanage to be apprenticed to a laddermaker only to find out that he is a virtual prisoner, he seeks escape with the one affectionate creature in his life, the dog Mash. Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan Garden, Nancy 48518 EN UG 6.4 13.0 F 77866 N N - - - In 1429 France, Gabrielle cannot resist of Arc the urge to escape her small town and follow her friend, Joan of Arc. Dracula (Unabridged) Stoker, Bram 10029 EN UG 6.6 25.0 F 153595 N N - N N Vampires, werewolves, creatures dead and yet still living abound amidst people determined to eliminate them. Dragon Bones See, Lisa 82292 EN UG 6.7 19.0 F 112800 N N - - - When the body of an American archaeologist is found in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband are sent to investigate, and they soon begin to suspect the death was not accidental. The Dragon's Tapestry Bates, Martine 42280 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 50743 N N - - - Marwen's destiny has been woven, and it will lead her far from her village to lost lands, to a powerful magic she can scarcely control, and to a mystery no one should have to face alone. Dragonflight McCaffrey, Anne 11711 EN UG 6.9 14.0 F 83832 N N - N N Lessa disguises herself as a kitchen drudge, biding her time until she can reclaim her birthright, but her plans are changed when she is pressed into service to the new dragon queen. The plot contains sexual situations. Dragongirl McCaffrey, Todd 138961 EN UG 6.0 24.0 F 147254 N N - - - Fiona, the rider of dragon queen Talenth, is asked to assume the duties of Weyrwoman when the dragons begin to succumb to a deadly contagion that threatens the dragon population. The plot contains sexual references. Dreaming in Cuban García, Cristina 44735 EN UG 6.5 11.0 F 67427 N N - - - This is the story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search Houston, James 8061 EN MG 6.0 8.0 F 48576 N N - - - Having been taken from her Arctic home when a tiny child, a teenager returns to look for her parents and learn once again about her Eskimo culture. East Pattou, Edith 71134 EN UG 6.1 16.0 F 100593 N N - - N A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment. The Edge on the Sword Tingle, Rebecca 51788 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 64615 N N - - N In ninth-century Britain, the fifteen year old daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than she expected. The Egypt Game Snyder, Zilpha 217 EN MG 6.4 7.0 F 43004 N N - N N It is only a game for six children, until an Keatley oracle tells the truth and a murderer appears. Empire of the Ants Werber, Bernard 70077 EN UG 6.5 15.0 F 90212 N N - - - Jonathan Wells is bequeathed a Paris apartment by an eccentric uncle who leaves behind the admonition never to go into the cellar, but when the family dog disappears, followed by Jonathan's wife and son, Jonathan is forced to go down the stairs. Enchantments Ferri, Linda 89083 EN UG 6.1 4.0 F 24627 N N - - - This fictional memoir chronicles the innocent childhood years to the coming- of-age of a privileged Italian girl growing up in 1960s Paris. Ender in Exile Card, Orson Scott 126924 EN UG 6.0 20.0 F 126600 N N - - - Ender is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros at one of the Hegemony's training facilities but chooses to journey out to the colonies with his sister, Valentine. Endymion Spring Skelton, Matthew 108710 EN MG 6.3 13.0 F 82202 N N - - - Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael 45279 EN UG 6.8 14.0 F 82370 N N - - - This is the story of four people brought together during the final moments of World War II in a deserted Indian villa. The Entomological Tales of Low, Dene 130507 EN MG 6.5 6.0 F 38950 N N - - - As Petronella and her close friends, the Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Sinclairs, endeavor to sort out an Saves Nearly Everyone international intrigue involving kidnapping and land rights in Panama, she must also try to cover up her uncle's new eating habit, a voracious appetite for all things insect. Epic Kostick, Conor 114094 EN UG 6.3 14.0 F 85502 N N - - - On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. The Eternal Flame Barron, T.A. 111090 EN MG 6.8 16.0 F 95602 N N - - - Merlin's grandson, Tamwyn, and his friends race to stop the warlord Rhita Gawr from destroying Avalon. Book #3 Eva Dickinson, Peter 8562 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 64348 N N - - - After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. Even More Short & Shivery San Souci, Robert D. 43403 EN MG 6.2 5.0 F 30499 N N - - - This book is filled with thirty spine- tingling tales. Every Visible Thing: A Novel Carey, Lisa 111424 EN UG 6.1 14.0 F 88733 N N - - - Five years after their oldest son, Hugh, disappeared, the members of the Furey family try to move on with their lives. Evolution: The Story of Life on Hosler, Jay 141586 EN MG 6.9 4.0 F 25486 N N - - - Two alien rulers who hope to make their Earth own race more adaptable get a detailed lesson about evolution on Earth. The Exchange Student Gilmore, Kate 2478 EN UG 6.4 9.0 F 53931 N N - - N When her mother arranges to host one of the young people coming to earth frm Chela, Daria is both pleased and intrigued by the keen interest shown by the Chelan in her work breeding endangered species.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Extra-Ordinary Princess Ebbitt, Carolyn Q. 131336 EN MG 6.3 13.0 F 77848 N N - - - Although Amelia, the youngest of the four princesses in Gossling, seems in all ways ordinary, she discovers that she has an important role to play in saving her kingdom from destruction. Exultant Baxter, Stephen 88267 EN UG 6.8 28.0 F 168573 N N - - - The fate of the human race balances on the actions of Pirius, a young pilot who disobeys Coalition orders and risks his own life to travel back in time and stop the alien race of Xeelee before they can destroy the world. Eye of the Wolf Harrison, Troon 74516 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 66829 N N - - - In 2205, the world is in the grip of another Ice Age. Chandra must make her way to the south, cross a heavily guarded border, without papers. What begins as a search for her mother becomes a fight for the lives of everything and everyone she loves. The Eyeball Collector Higgins, F.E. 134052 EN MG+ 6.6 8.0 F 46732 N N - - - Hector travels to Pagus Parvus and Withypitts Hall on his quest for vengeance against the man responsible for his poverty, but his adversary is a master of disguises who steals from the wealthy. Fade Cormier, Robert 67254 EN UG 6.3 14.0 F 86003 N N - - - Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction. The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue: Muñoz, Manuel 116387 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 68030 N N - - - This collection of ten interconnected Stories stories is about the lives of several families in a Mexican American community in central California. The plots contain profanity and sexual situations.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Hoffman, Mary 115457 EN MG+ 6.3 12.0 F 71946 N N - - - Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play a friary and a nunnery in 14th century Renaissance Italy, dream of a future together, but when murders are committed, they must discover who is behind the crimes. The plot contains sexual references. Fantasy Stories Jones, Diana Wynne 66722 EN MG 6.2 12.0 F 72393 N N - - - This is an illustrated collection of short stories and excerpts from longer works dealing with witches, fairies, magic, and fantasy worlds. A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest 8656 EN UG 6.0 13.0 F 82532 N N - N N Set in World War I Italy, this is one of the most poignant love stories ever written. The Farming of Bones Danticat, Edwidge 79171 EN UG 6.0 13.0 F 79978 N N - - - Amabelle, a Haitian woman who has grown up as a servant in the home of Dominicans, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, try to plan for the future amid the storm of persecution against their people. Farthing Walton, Jo 116384 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 93395 N N - - - Lucy and David Kahn are invited to a country retreat hosted by the well- connected Farthing set, who overthrew Churchill in 1941 and negotiated peace with Hitler. They find themselves involved in a political murder, and David becomes the prime suspect. Favorite Medieval Tales Osborne, Mary Pope 82982 EN MG 6.0 2.0 F 14825 N N - - - This book is a collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe. The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J.R.R. 737 EN UG 6.1 29.0 F 177227 N N - - N It is up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam with a small band of companions to carry the Ring of Power to the one place it could be destroyed, while avoiding the Ringwraiths.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Fever Crumb Reeve, Philip 136800 EN MG+ 6.7 13.0 F 75581 N N - - - Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an Engineer, but at age fourteen, she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present. Book #1 Fifty Degrees Below Robinson, Kim 106271 EN UG 6.2 25.0 F 154698 N N - - - Scientist Frank Vanderwal, having Stanley survived a killer storm caused by global warming, prepares to face an even worse disaster when the melting of the polar ice caps shuts down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, which promises to bring another ice age. Finding Hattie Warner, Sally 47410 EN MG 6.5 8.0 F 45833 N N - - - Hattie, an orphan, and her cousin attend boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, in 1882. The Finishing School Spark, Muriel 86491 EN UG 6.0 5.0 F 30265 N N - - - Rowland Mahler, dean and professor at College Sunrise, a disreputable finishing school in Switzerland, becomes trapped in a web of jealousy, attraction when he encounters a student whose novel has already generated more interest than his. Fire Cashore, Kristin 132410 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 112634 N N - - - Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world. The plot contains sexual situations and violence. Fire Bringer Clement-Davies, 45703 EN UG 6.0 25.0 F 154387 N N - - - In a Scotland beset by Norse invaders, David the Herla are fighting their own war. A tyrannical new Lord of the Herd has ended the old way, the yearly play of antlers that ensured a change of leadership.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Fire Opal McBride, Regina 137058 EN MG 6.7 11.0 F 67648 N N - - - While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own. Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits McKinley, Robin 133317 EN MG+ 6.3 16.0 F 100227 N N - - - This book contains five tales about mythical animals, such as a dragon and a phoenix, and other things associated with the element of fire. The plot contains mild profanity and sexual situations. The coauthor is Peter Dickinson. The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Engle, Margarita 135907 EN MG+ 6.2 1.0 F 8182 N N - - - Based on the diaries and letters of Journey to Cuba Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, this book focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives. The FitzOsbornes in Exile Cooper, Michelle 143320 EN MG+ 6.6 18.0 F 109244 N N - - - In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England, but they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans. The Flame Tree Lewis, Richard 80128 EN MG+ 6.0 11.0 F 69377 N N - - - Just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java, and Isaac, the twelve-year-old son of American missionary doctors, finds his world turned upside-down. Flight of the Raven Tolan, Stephanie S. 54118 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 61205 N N - - - Elijah, a nine-year-old African American with unusual mental powers and a special ability to reach into the natural world, becomes a hostage of a terrorist militia group and finds himself in a world of violence.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Flight or Fight Haynes, Diane 102866 EN MG 6.5 9.0 F 56625 N N - - - When shy, quiet Jane Ray rescues a drowning seabird from an oil spill in Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, she finds herself face to face with national television cameras--and head to head with the alleged culprit, SeaKing Shipping Pacific. The Floating Islands Neumeier, Rachel 142175 EN MG+ 6.1 17.0 F 106084 N N - - - Two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The Floating Islands share adventures as one of them studies to become a mage and the other one studies to become a legendary island flyer. Flux Goobie, Beth 78313 EN UG 6.7 14.0 F 83980 N N - - - While using her ability to travel to parallel worlds, Nellie uncovers a conspiracy to abduct children for an experimental laboratory. For Matrimonial Purposes Daswani, Kavita 75998 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 66948 N N - - - Anju, born and raised in Bombay, is now a fashion journalist in New York. However, twined with her enjoyment of the American scene and her single, glamorous life, is her determination to remain true to her roots and her love of her extensive family. For the Win Doctorow, Cory 137296 EN UG 6.9 27.0 F 160136 N N - - - A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections. Forbidden Cargo Rowe, Rebecca K. 110760 EN UG 6.5 18.0 F 110641 N N - - - Creid, creator of the Molecular Advantage Machine that grants access to all human knowledge, is placed in a difficult position when the government Council asks him to discover whether the Imagofas, a race of nano-DNA hybrids, really exist.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Forbidden Forest: The Story of Cadnum, Michael 62181 EN MG 6.8 8.0 F 50492 N N - - N This story profiles Little John, from his Little John and Robin Hood quiet life before joining Robin Hood through his adventures protecting a beautiful lady when she is wrongfully accused of murdering her husband. A Forest of Stories: Magical Tree Singh, Rina 77496 EN MG 6.2 2.0 F 12439 N N - - - This collection of folktales asks us to Tales from Around the World rethink our relationship with trees and challenges us to look at them in new ways. Forty Signs of Rain Robinson, Kim 86336 EN UG 6.7 17.0 F 102522 N N - - - As global warming poses a significant Stanley world threat, Charlie has a difficult time convincing a skeptical administration. Meanwhile his wife, Anna, receives a proposal that might lead to new technology to solve the problem. Foundation Asimov, Isaac 50406 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 64995 N N - - - The fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Foundling Cornish, D.M. 106978 EN MG 6.6 12.0 F 70650 N N - - - Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter but meets people and monsters who are more complicated than he previously thought. Book #1 Four Steps to Death Wilson, John 100062 EN MG 6.1 7.0 F 41669 N N - - - It is 1942. The Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest in history, is underway. Three participants, two fighters and a boy, are caught in its horrors. Their story is told over seven days of fierce and deadly street-by-street fighting. Foxmask Marillier, Juliet 84573 EN UG 6.5 35.0 F 210835 N N - - - Thorvald, having always felt apart from the community of Norse warriors and gentlefolk inhabiting the Orkney Isles, learns upon coming to manhood that he is really the son of Somerled, a war leader exiled for treachery, and sets out to find his parent.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Frenchtown Summer Cormier, Robert 32206 EN MG 6.4 1.0 F 8031 N N - - N A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938. Frosty: The Adventures of a Feld, Ellen F. 78031 EN MG 6.2 8.0 F 50548 N N - - - While continuing the adventures of Morgan Horse Heather Richardson and her horse Blackjack, this book introduces Frosty, a rare gray Morgan. Book #2 Full Dark House Fowler, Christopher 83731 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 113551 N N - - - Eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant is killed in a bombing. His long-time partner, John May, finds a clue in his friend's decades-old notes of their very first case and must now hunt down a murderer who years later has returned. Gabriel's Story Durham, David 69117 EN UG 6.8 16.0 F 98173 N N - - - Gabriel, an African-American teen who Anthony has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be criminals. Gallows Hill Duncan, Lois 14767 EN UG 6.9 9.0 F 52987 N N - - N Sarah Zoltanne agrees to play a fortune teller at the high school fair; but when the things she sees start coming true, she is accused of being a witch and her life is threatened. Gardens of Water Drew, Alan 128516 EN UG 6.0 16.0 F 98826 N N - - - After an earthquake hits Istanbul, Kurdish Muslim Sinan and his family are forced to live in a camp set up by American missionaries and headed by his American neighbor. The plot contains sexual situations and violence. Gateway Shinn, Sharon 133318 EN MG+ 6.0 11.0 F 69548 N N - - - While passing through the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, a Chinese American teenager is transported to a parallel world where she is given a dangerous assignment.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Gathering of Days Blos, Joan W. 221 EN MG 6.7 5.0 F 28763 N N - N N When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. Gaudy Night Sayers, Dorothy L. 65582 EN UG 6.7 26.0 F 158553 N N - - - When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, the prim academic setting is haunted by bizarre pranks, some threatening murder. In a nightmare of romance and terror, there are only shreds of clues for Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey. Genghis: Lords of the Bow Iggulden, Conn 125009 EN UG 6.8 24.0 F 141492 N N - - - Genghis Khan marches with his warriors across the Gobi Desert to lay siege in his quest for domination, using his imagination and cunning to battle enemies. The plot contains graphic violence and sexually explicit language and situations. Gentlemen & Players: A Novel Harris, Joanne 111425 EN UG 6.6 19.0 F 112859 N N - - - Young Snyde, whose father was dismissed as Porter from St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school, returns masquerading as a teacher with plans to destroy the school. The Ghost at the Table: A Novel Berne, Suzanne 113832 EN UG 6.5 13.0 F 79612 N N - - - Two sisters, Frances and Cynthia, travel to visit their estranged father for Thanksgiving, and amidst questions surrounding their mother's death, they struggle with differing ideas of what their relationship with him should be like. Ghosts in the Gallery Wallace, Barbara 41784 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 42973 N N - - N When eleven-year-old Jenny arrives at Brooks her grandfather's house but is not recognized as one of the family because of a servant's intrigue, the young orphan endures a difficult fate.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Gib and the Gray Ghost Snyder, Zilpha 36697 EN MG 6.4 9.0 F 54791 N N - - N In 1909, after spending several months Keatley back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven -year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. Gib Rides Home Snyder, Zilpha 25056 EN MG 6.3 9.0 F 57380 N N - N N Despite the harsh treatment he has Keatley endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908. Ginger Pye Estes, Eleanor 31 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 56876 N N - N N The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. Gingerbread Cohn, Rachel 59166 EN UG 6.1 7.0 F 44510 N N - - - After she is expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse finds that her problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father. Girl in Hyacinth Blue Vreeland, Susan 67937 EN UG 6.2 7.0 F 44310 N N - - - This book tells the story of how a priceless Vermeer painting came to be hanging in the home of lowly college professor Cornelius Engelbrecht. Girl Overboard Headley, Justina 119442 EN UG 6.6 14.0 F 85012 N N - - - After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Chen Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self- esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Girl Who Could Fly Forester, Victoria 122797 EN MG 6.0 11.0 F 70576 N N - - N Piper McCloud's ability to fly sets her apart from the other kids, so her mother sends her to an exclusive school for children with exceptional abilities, but even there she does not fit in with the other students. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon King, Stephen 30307 EN UG 6.4 10.0 F 61277 N N - - N Lost while hiking on the Appalachian trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland listens to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games. Trisha imagines that her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is protecting her. The Girl Who Played Go Sa, Shan 79142 EN UG 6.8 10.0 F 57473 N N - - - A sixteen-year-old girl in a remote Manchurian town is more concerned with the intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers. The Girls: A Novel Lansens, Lori 109064 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 117461 N N - - - This fictional autobiography of conjoined twins is told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head. Glint Coburn, Ann 112315 EN MG+ 6.1 15.0 F 94969 N N - - - At the same time that fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year -old brother, Danny, in the world Danny and Ellie imagined, a young girl named Argent sets off on a quest of her own to reclaim a stolen dragon hatchling. The Glorious Adventures of the McCaughrean, 143925 EN MG 6.5 11.0 F 67613 N N - - - When a diphtheria outbreak forces 12- Sunshine Queen Geraldine year-old Cissy to leave her Oklahoma hometown in the 1890s, she and her two classmates embark on a wild adventure down the Missouri River with a team of traveling actors who are living on a dilapidated paddle steamer.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James 10034 EN UG 6.5 13.0 F 80384 N N - N N Fourteen-year-old John struggles against the environmental influences of Harlem. A Golden Web Quick, Barbara 137888 EN MG+ 6.4 8.0 F 46064 N N - - - In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy. Good Blood Elkins, Aaron 85247 EN UG 6.2 13.0 F 79112 N N - - - Gideon Oliver, a professor of forensic anthropology, finds his vacation in Italy interrupted when he is asked to determine whether the bones unearthed from a construction site are those of Achille, the kidnapped son of Gideon's host. The Good Earth Buck, Pearl S. 706 EN UG 6.8 19.0 F 114157 N N - N N Flood, drought, pestilence, and revolution are interwoven into a universal story of man's destiny. Goose Chase Kindl, Patrice 46846 EN UG 6.5 8.0 F 50941 N N - - N Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is. The Grass Dancer Power, Susan 63684 EN UG 6.5 15.0 F 89752 N N - - - Set on a North Dakota reservation, this story is based on Sioux tradition and weaves themes of old and new generations, broken families, romantic rivals, and the lives of a people changed by love and war. Grass for His Pillow Hearn, Lian 75512 EN UG 6.3 15.0 F 90879 N N - - - The orphan Takeo has been claimed by the Tribe and held against his will, forced to work as an assassin and leave behind his beloved Kaede, leading him to fight for his freedom, even if it may cost him his life.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Great Death Smelcer, John 133411 EN MG 6.1 5.0 F 30951 N N - - - As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men early, sisters Millie and Maura, aged thirteen and ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive. The plot contains mild sexual references and violence. The Great Whale of Kansas Jennings, Richard W. 53436 EN MG 6.5 5.0 F 32353 N N - - N While digging a hole in his back yard, an eleven-year-old Kansas boy finds the fossilized remains of a gigantic prehistoric animal, a discovery that brings both fame and controversy. The Grey King Cooper, Susan 33 EN MG 6.2 9.0 F 55841 N N - N N Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. Book #4 Growing Up Ethnic in America: Gillan, Maria 70603 EN UG 6.0 18.0 F 112311 N N - - - This book contains thirty-five short, Contemporary Fiction About Mazziotti fiction stories in which the authors Learning to Be an American explore issues of race and ethnicity in America. The coauthor is Jennifer Gillan. Guitar Girl Manning, Sarra 78454 EN UG 6.6 9.0 F 56043 N N - - - Things start heating up on stage and off when new members join Molly's band, The Hormones, and they find themselves on a roller-coaster ride to pop stardom. Guns for General Washington Reit, Seymour 44226 EN MG 6.1 4.0 F 22032 N N - - - In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, frustrated with the British blockade of Boston, attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Guys Write for Guys Read Scieszka, Jon 87588 EN MG 6.2 9.0 F 56314 N N - - N This selection of short stories features work from Brian Jacques, Jerry Spinelli, Chris Crutcher, Mo Willems, Chris Van Allsburg, Matt Groening, Neil Gaiman, the editors and columnists from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, THE ONION, and ESQUIRE magazines, and more. The Happiness of Kati Vejjajiva, Jane 106133 EN MG 6.2 3.0 F 20967 N N - - N With the impending death of her mother, Kati, a young Thai girl, completes the puzzle of her past and discovers the reason that her mother gave her up as a baby. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Rushdie, Salman 54120 EN UG 6.9 7.0 F 42869 N N - - - This tale is about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Rowling, J.K. 32081 EN MG 6.7 14.0 F 84799 N N - N N When the Chamber of Secrets is Secrets opened again at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. Book #2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Rowling, J.K. 116230 EN MG+ 6.9 34.0 F 198227 N N - N N Harry discovers what fate truly has in Hallows store for him as he inevitably makes his way to the final meeting with Voldemort. Book #7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J.K. 40670 EN MG 6.8 32.0 F 190858 N N - N N In this fourth novel of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age, Harry wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately, he is not normal--even by wizardry standards. In his case, different can be deadly. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Rowling, J.K. 32082 EN MG 6.7 18.0 F 106821 N N - N N When Harry and his best friends go Azkaban back for their third year at Hogwarts, an escaped mass murderer is on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. Book #3 Haveli Staples, Suzanne 5333 EN UG 6.7 12.0 F 71449 N N - - - Shabanu falls in love in this story of a Fisher woman's struggle against the tyranny of tradition in Pakistan. He Shall Thunder in the Sky Peters, Elizabeth 114701 EN UG 6.0 25.0 F 158615 N N - - - Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson 740 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 119450 N N - N N A sensitive teenage girl unravels the pervasive mystery of that loneliness which encompasses us all. Heat Cadnum, Michael 68678 EN UG 6.6 7.0 F 43911 N N - - - A teenaged diving champion must deal with the aftermath of a diving accident and her attorney father's remarriage and subsequent arrest for fraud. Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go Basye, Dale E. 123923 EN MG 6.0 8.0 F 53005 N N - - - When timid Milton and his older sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Limbo, the first of the Nine Circles of Heck, from which they are determined to escape. Book #1 Heir to the Empire Zahn, Timothy 102830 EN UG 6.1 19.0 F 117735 N N - - - In this first book of the series, thousands of light-years away, the last of the emperor's warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the new Republic. Here on Earth Hoffman, Alice 19892 EN UG 6.2 15.0 F 95071 N N - - - March returns to Massachusetts after nineteen years in California and becomes involved with an old boyfriend.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Heretic's Daughter Kent, Kathleen 126302 EN UG 6.8 17.0 F 101954 N N - - - Ten-year-old Sarah Chapman, recovering from smallpox in 1752, becomes caught up in another life and death battle when her mother, Martha, is accused of witchcraft by her uncle who wants the plot of land on which the Chapman family is living. Heroes and She-roes: Poems of Lewis, J. Patrick 86945 EN MG 6.4 0.5 F 2519 N N - - - This book contains twenty-one poems Amazing and Everyday Heroes that celebrate and chronicle the actions of real-life persons (and one dog) who have performed heroic acts in service of others. Hex Lassiter, Rhiannon 56249 EN UG 6.7 10.0 F 60610 N N - - - In 24th century London, a secret government agency is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex, human mutants with supercomputer minds. They are young, look normal, and must never be allowed to grow up; but they have missed one. The Hidden Diary of Marie Erickson, Carolly 103775 EN UG 6.5 16.0 F 97246 N N - - - The author presents a historical fiction Antoinette: A Novel on the life and death of Marie Antoinette through a diary she leaves behind in her prison cell. Hidden Empire Card, Orson Scott 142636 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 109062 N N - - - Averell Torrent has complete power as president of the United States and sets out to control or silence those behind the assassination of the last president. It is up to Captain Bartholomew Coleman to stop him. The plot contains profanity and violence. The Hidden Gallery Wood, Maryrose 142582 EN MG 6.5 10.0 F 58874 N N - - - Miss Penelope, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse. Book #2

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Hidden World Baird, Alison 65154 EN MG 6.1 15.0 F 91130 N N - - - When Maeve discovers her grandmother's diary and a beautiful Celtic brooch, something strange happens. She finds herself in the Hidden World - a place that is alive with magic and danger. High Country Barr, Nevada 85248 EN UG 6.4 14.0 F 85694 N N - - - Anna Pigeon is assigned to work undercover at Yosemite National Park in order to solve the disappearance of four seasonal workers. The Highest Tide Lynch, Jim 104781 EN UG 6.7 12.0 F 69036 N N - - - When thirteen-year-old Miles discovers a rare deep-sea creature stranded in the mud of the tidal flats of Puget Sound, he finds himself thrown into the limelight. But as he continues discovering rare ocean creatures, some people wonder if he's a prophet. The Hippie House Holubitsky, Katherine 79156 EN UG 6.0 12.0 F 74358 N N - - - When a local girl is found murdered in the summer of 1970, the freedom and innocence of youth are forgotten and, for fourteen-year-old Emma, things will never be the same. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Adams, Douglas 7109 EN UG 6.6 8.0 F 46333 N N - - N After the end of the world and the days Galaxy that follow it, Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent meet an assortment of characters as they make their way around the galaxy. Book #1 A Hive for the Honeybee Lally, Soinbhe 34811 EN UG 6.2 5.0 F 31133 N N - - - When Thora, a young worker bee, befriends some drones, she wonders if they really are lords of the hive or if their pompous posturing merely conceals an appalling fate. The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R. 511 EN UG 6.6 16.0 F 95022 N N - N N This stirring adventure is a fantasy that introduces the far-wandering hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Hole in the World Hite, Sid 54638 EN UG 6.0 5.0 F 29388 N N - - N Fifteen-year-old Paul is sent to live on a relative's isolated Virginia farm to build his character. There are mystical happenings and he learns about the nature of loss and memory, and the power of words. Home of the Braves Klass, David 62560 EN UG 6.1 12.0 F 71766 N N - - - Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date. Homer Price McCloskey, Robert 39 EN MG 6.6 4.0 F 21328 N N - N N Ingenious young Homer Price captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps people in trouble. Honey Bea Siegelson, Kim L. 105168 EN MG 6.4 7.0 F 45344 N N - - N On a Louisiana sugar plantation, a young slave girl struggles with the magical powers that have been passed down from her grandmother and mother to her, unsure of the responsibilities and consequences that accompany this power. Hope's War Skrypuch, Marsha 77937 EN MG+ 6.1 11.0 F 65755 N N - - - Kat's grandfather is accused of being a Forchuk policeman for the Nazis in World War II Ukraine. A Horse of Her Own Wedekind, Annie 122795 EN MG 6.8 11.0 F 67605 N N - - - At summer camp, Jane feels like an outsider among the rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a new horse. The Hostile Hospital Snicket, Lemony 53273 EN MG 6.9 6.0 F 37752 N N - - N On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit. Book #8

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Hotlanta Millner, Denene 122785 EN MG+ 6.2 10.0 F 59922 N N - - - Living a privileged life in Atlanta, wealthy and beautiful African American twin sisters Sydney and Lauren must deal with family secrets and scandal when their father is released from prison. The coauthor is Mitzi Miller. Book #1 The Hounds of the Morrigan O'Shea, Pat 29760 EN UG 6.2 24.0 F 146946 N N - - - When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it. The Hours Cunningham, 31227 EN UG 6.6 9.0 F 54243 N N - N N In this novel the author draws on the life Michael and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. A House Called Awful End Ardagh, Philip 63084 EN MG 6.3 4.0 F 24173 N N - - N When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's ill parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken by his great- uncle and great-aunt, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float. A House for Mr. Biswas Naipaul, V.S. 43272 EN UG 6.8 33.0 F 198901 N N - - - This novel tells the story of a man without a single asset who enters a life devoid of opportunity, and whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world.

House of Sand and Fog Dubus III, Andre 59126 EN UG 6.3 23.0 F 141125 N N - - - The lives of Kathy Nicolo and the Behrani family are forever changed when a misunderstanding about a house comes to a disastrous conclusion.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The House Where Nobody Lived Strickland, Brad 112583 EN MG 6.0 6.0 F 36203 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Lewis and his best friend Rose Rita investigate a strange old house in their home town and discover that they may be dealing with powerful ancient Hawaiian spirits. How I Live Now Rosoff, Meg 80148 EN UG 6.7 8.0 F 46920 N N - - N To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen- year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Alvarez, Julia 21597 EN UG 6.2 13.0 F 79910 N N - - - The family is forced to flee their home Accents into exile when a coup attempt fails. How to Train Your Dragon Cowell, Cressida 78100 EN MG 6.6 5.0 F 30774 N N - - N This book chronicles the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass an important initiation by catching and training a dragon. Book #1 Huge Fuerst, James W. 135964 EN UG 6.3 17.0 F 103706 N N - - - "Huge" Smalls is a tough, bad tempered, precocious twelve-year-old wannabe detective. When his grandmother hires him to solve a case, his bungled search turns into a search for self. The plot contains pervasive profanity and sexual situations. Hugo Pepper Stewart, Paul 113015 EN MG 6.9 5.0 F 28104 N N - - - A boy, orphaned and raised by reindeer herders in the Frozen North, boards his birth parents' sled and sets its special compass to "Home" where he uncovers a plot that threatens friends of his family. The coauthor is Chris Riddell. Book #3 The Hunting of the Last Dragon Jordan, Sherryl 59345 EN UG 6.0 8.0 F 52626 N N - - N In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Rosenberg, Liz 101654 EN UG 6.5 3.0 F 15985 N N - - - This collection includes poems by Sadness, Madness, and Joy Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, Jane Kenyon, and many more, including teenage writers and up-and-coming poets. The co-editor is Deena November. I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade Wilson, Diane Lee 28084 EN UG 6.3 10.0 F 63198 N N - - - Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1285. I, Robot (Robot Series) Asimov, Isaac 28462 EN UG 6.1 11.0 F 68902 N N - - - This is a series of science-fiction stories about robots from their primitive beginnings to the future. The Icarus Girl Oyeyemi, Helen 88696 EN UG 6.3 15.0 F 90537 N N - - - Jess is an eight-year-old caught between two different worlds. The daughter of a British father and a Nigerian mother, she has always felt like a misfit. Believing that a change might be the perfect antidote, her parents whisk her off to visit Nigeria. If Only You Knew: A Hotlanta Millner, Denene 126854 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 54958 N N - - - Twins Sydney and Lauren continue to Novel delve into a murder mystery that somehow involves both their father and stepfather. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence. The coauthor is Mitzi Miller. Book #2 If You Could Be My Friend Boudalika, Litsa 28578 EN MG 6.3 4.0 F 23252 N N - - - This book describes the correspondence between two girls, one and Israeli the other a Palestinian. In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Meyer, Carolyn 122076 EN MG+ 6.5 12.0 F 75148 N N - - - In 18th-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Story Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description In the Heart of the Country Coetzee, J.M. 76091 EN UG 6.4 9.0 F 56754 N N - - - An unattractive, ignored spinster daughter, determined not to be forgotten, takes drastic measures when her father takes an African mistress. In the Paint Rud, Jeff 87603 EN MG 6.1 6.0 F 35718 N N - - - For as long as he can remember, Matt has wanted to play basketball. Now, as he tries out for the team at his new middle school, he realizes that the easy days of elementary ball are over and that this is a much more serious game. Book #1 In the Shadow of the Alamo Garland, Sherry 53811 EN MG+ 6.2 10.0 F 63589 N N - - - Conscripted into the Mexican army, Lorenzo makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Anna as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo. Incident at Badamya Gilman, Dorothy 66994 EN UG 6.6 9.0 F 57074 N N - - - In the jungle of 1950s Burma, the orphan of an American missionary sets out to meet her destiny. Captured by Red Chinese forces, she makes friends with a fellow prisoner, a mysterious Burmese puppet master who holds the secret to her mystical gifts. Indio Garland, Sherry 46119 EN MG+ 6.5 11.0 F 65804 N N - - - Teenage Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border. Inside the Walls of Troy McLaren, Clemence 17262 EN MG 6.4 8.0 F 46605 N N - - - The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen, and the prophetic Cassandra. Interview with the Vampire Rice, Anne 65098 EN UG 6.9 22.0 F 130232 N N - - - This book presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire Lestat.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Into the Woods Gardner, Lyn 115807 EN MG 6.0 13.0 F 78538 N N - - - Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters, Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, Aurora, the elder, and Any, the baby, flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with dangers. Is This Forever, or What? Poems & Nye, Naomi Shihab 101862 EN MG 6.2 3.0 F 17924 N N - - - In this book is a collection of poetry and Paintings from Texas full-color artwork from Texas. It's Raining Pigs & Noodles Prelutsky, Jack 87152 EN MG 6.0 2.0 F 9418 N N - - - This collection of over 100 humorous poems features "The Dancing Hippopotami," "You Can't Make Me Eat That," "My Father's Name is Sasquatch," and "Dear Wumbledeedumble." Jack Fish Milligan, J. 124857 EN UG 6.3 9.0 F 52966 N N - - - Jack Fish, an amphibian secret agent of the Elders of Atlantis, travels to New York to learn how the air-breathers live. Although labeled as hip, zany, and fun, the plot contains pervasive profanity, sexually explicit language and scenes, and violence. Jazz Morrison, Toni 68894 EN UG 6.0 11.0 F 66117 N N - - - A mysterious voice weaves the story set in the winter of 1926, of an African- American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. A Journey to the New World: The Lasky, Kathryn 17627 EN MG 6.0 4.0 F 26370 N N - N N Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary Diary of Remember Patience account of the trip she and her family Whipple made on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and their first year in the New World. Journey to Topaz Uchida, Yoshiko 29767 EN UG 6.0 5.0 F 34288 N N - - - This is the story of 11-year-old Yuki and her family who, after Pearl Harbor, are forced from their home and made to live in Topaz, a concentration camp in the desert.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Jubilee Walker, Margaret 71294 EN UG 6.4 24.0 F 149254 N N - - - This book chronicles the experiences of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress, discussing her life as slave during the Civil War, and as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. July's People Gordimer, Nadine 71295 EN UG 6.6 8.0 F 45385 N N - - - Set against the background of the turbulent situation in South Africa, this is the story of a middle-class family forced to seek refuge in the village of their black manservant, July. Jump and Other Stories Gordimer, Nadine 71296 EN UG 6.7 11.0 F 64408 N N - - - In this book, sixteen stories ranging from the dynamics of family life to the worldwide confusion of human values, Nadine Gordimer gives us access to lives in places as far apart as suburban London, Mozambique, a mythical island, and South Africa. Just So Stories (Unabridged) Kipling, Rudyard 20231 EN MG 6.4 5.0 F 33373 N N - - - This book creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven Lasky, Kathryn 85872 EN MG 6.2 5.0 F 28973 N N - - - Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue. Keep Sweet Greene, Michele 144363 EN UG 6.1 9.0 F 56719 N N - - - Fourteen-yr-old Alva is content with her Dominguez life within the within the walls of a fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community, until she is caught giving her longtime crush an innocent first kiss. The plot contains sexual violence and abuse. Keeper of Dreams Card, Orson Scott 122288 EN UG 6.1 39.0 F 243133 N N - - - This book provides a collection of twenty -four short stories by American author Orson Scott Card.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Kick in the Head Janeczko, Paul B. 86581 EN MG 6.0 1.0 F 3213 N N - - - This illustrated collection of poetry in a variety of forms demonstrates the rules of poetry. King of Shadows Cooper, Susan 34721 EN MG 6.2 8.0 F 48002 N N - - N While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself. The King's Daughter Martel, Suzanne 77389 EN MG 6.4 9.0 F 55407 N N - - - Jeanne Chatel, an eighteen-year-old orphan, doesn't hesitate when she is summoned from France to the wilds of North America to become a "king's daughter" and marry a French settler. But she needs bravery and adventurous spirit to survive in her new land. The King's Swift Rider Hunter, Mollie 36458 EN UG 6.9 10.0 F 61867 N N - - - Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland's rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for its leader, Robert the Bruce. A Kiss of Fate Putney, Mary Jo 85245 EN UG 6.8 18.0 F 105762 N N - - - Scottish Lord Duncan Macrae is drawn to the young English widow Gwyneth Owens, but his passion for her may jeopardize his loyalty to his land and to his Guardian vows to end the strife between Scotland and England. The Kite Rider McCaughrean, 60012 EN MG 6.5 10.0 F 62607 N N - - N In thirteenth-century China, after trying Geraldine to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve- year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider. Knight's Wyrd Doyle, Debra 66995 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 53919 N N - - - Will Odosson sets out on a series of dangerous adventures after a wizard predicts that he will meet death before a year has passed. The coauthor is James D. Macdonald.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Lake, the River & the Other Amick, Steve 108071 EN UG 6.8 23.0 F 135931 N N - - - The author introduces a number of Lake different characters, each with a problem to solve or an axe to grind, including the main character, Roger Drinkwater, who is desperate to rid his beautiful lake from the annoying jet- skiers who have taken it over. The Laments Hagen, George 83739 EN UG 6.3 17.0 F 102106 N N - - - A boy switched at birth grows up feeling that he doesn't belong in his quirky-but- loving family who can't seem to settle down in one place. The Land of Painted Caves Auel, Jean M. 144247 EN UG 6.7 52.0 F 313215 N N - - - Ayla and Jondalar are welcomed by the Zeladonii, and they make a home for themselves in a stone cave, but while their first priority is to care for their daughter, the family encounters problems in their new community. The Landry News Clements, Andrew 31641 EN MG 6.0 4.0 F 26433 N N - N N A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result. The Last Knight: A Knight and Bell, Hilari 117772 EN MG+ 6.1 12.0 F 76849 N N - - - In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Rogue Novel Sir Michael, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband's murder. Book #1 The Last Rainmaker Garland, Sherry 70377 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 58719 N N - - - Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year- old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose origins have been kept a secret from Caroline.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Last Unicorn Beagle, Peter S. 70085 EN UG 6.2 11.0 F 68034 N N - - - A magician and a very old but beautiful unicorn travel the world in search of others of her species. Late for the Wedding Quick, Amanda 82392 EN UG 6.0 16.0 F 98313 N N - - - Lavinia and Tobias escape the chaos of London for a relaxing romantic weekend, but the lovers' plans are foiled when their first cozy interlude is disrupted by a woman from Tobias's past, and their weekend getaway turns into a manhunt for a killer. Lavinia Le Guin, Ursula K. 122479 EN UG 6.2 15.0 F 94456 N N - - - Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, gets caught in the middle of her parents' conflicting wishes that she marry either Turnus, king of Rutuli, or Trojan stranger Aeneas, which follows an omen that dictates she will cause a war. Leaving Cecil Street: A Novel McKinney- 86053 EN UG 6.4 15.0 F 89321 N N - - - The residents of Cecil Street, an African Whetstone, Diane -American neighborhood in Philadelphia, close ranks to protect their own in the summer of 1969. The Legend Begins Carmody, Isobelle 111342 EN MG 6.3 4.0 F 26993 N N - - - When half-elf, half-troll Little Fur learns that servants of the Troll King aim to destroy her beloved trees, she embarks on a dangerous journey into the human world in hopes of saving not only the wilderness she calls home, but the earth spirit itself. The Legend of the Wandering King Gallego García, 100302 EN MG 6.4 7.0 F 44592 N N - - - Motivated by jealousy and the desire to Laura receive acclaim as a great poet, Walid ibn Hujr, a prince of ancient Arabia, commits acts which completely change the course of his life. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Pressler, Mirjam 120006 EN UG 6.5 10.0 F 62111 N N - - - Johanna, a German girl, learns on a trip to Israel that her family's successful clothing store was originally owned by a Jewish family and was acquired by her grandfather through the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazi regime.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Letter to My Daughter Bishop, George 145258 EN UG 6.3 7.0 F 40469 N N - - - Laura's teenage daughter Elizabeth runs away in the middle of the night after a terrible argument. As she waits for her return, Laura begins to write a letter, pouring her heart and soul into her own life story, most of which she has never before shared. The Letters Yumoto, Kazumi 58217 EN MG 6.1 6.0 F 36086 N N - - - In Japan, the death of her former landlady triggers a young woman's memories about her father's death when she was six years old, and the special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss. Letters from Camp Klise, Kate 41272 EN MG 6.1 5.0 F 28557 N N - - - Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle in letters home how they come to suspect the intentions of the singing family running the camp. Life & Times of Michael K Coetzee, J.M. 70604 EN UG 6.3 11.0 F 65945 N N - - - This book is about the adventures and misadventures of a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. Like the Red Panda Seigel, Andrea 79896 EN UG 6.1 13.0 F 81219 N N - - - Stella Parrish, who has lived with foster parents since age eleven when her parents died of a heroin overdose, chronicles her last two weeks of high school as she plans to commit suicide. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations. Like We Care Matthews, Tom 84494 EN UG 6.5 13.0 F 81361 N N - - - Todd Noland and Joel Kasten, two high school seniors fed up with adult hypocrisy, launch a plan to disrupt the political and social control of the recording, cigarette, and junk food industry by not buying the products, the hype, and the peer pressure.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Lips Touch: Three Times Taylor, Laini 132412 EN UG 6.4 10.0 F 60828 N N - - - This book, featuring elements of the supernatural, contains three short stories of how the thrills, hazards, and mysteries of love are encapsulated in a kiss. The Little Balloonist: A Novel Donn, Linda 107182 EN UG 6.8 7.0 F 41971 N N - - - This fictionalized novel set in Napoleonic France was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly. Littlejim's Dreams Houston, Gloria 34706 EN MG 6.0 8.0 F 48039 N N - - - In 1920 in the mountains of western North Carolina, fourteen-year-old Jim Houston sees his hopes of continuing his education fade when his mother becomes seriously ill and his logger father must deal with the underhanded dealings of outside businessmen. The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti Geary, Rick 145713 EN MG+ 6.6 2.0 F 9616 N N - - - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of robbery and murder, but so many supposedly damning pieces of evidence were questionable, their guilty verdict elicited massive protests around the world. The text and photos contains violence. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace Smith, Alexander 135875 EN MG+ 6.5 12.0 F 74294 N N - - - When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed Gordon for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign and escape might just be possible. The plot contains graphic violence. Book #1 The Long Patrol Jacques, Brian 20083 EN MG 6.0 15.0 F 93572 N N - N N Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion hordes. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Gilmore, Susan 121619 EN UG 6.0 11.0 F 71497 N N - - - Growing up in the 1970s, the preacher's Queen Gregg daughter, Catherine Grace Cline, dreams of becoming a big-city success as she licks countless Dilly Bars atop the picnic table at the Dairy Queen.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Looking Glass Wars Beddor, Frank 109069 EN MG+ 6.7 12.0 F 71773 N N - - - When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne. Looks George, Madeleine 122999 EN UG 6.5 10.0 F 60816 N N - - - Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship. Lost City: A Novel from the Numa Cussler, Clive 84495 EN UG 6.3 20.0 F 119770 N N - - - Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have Files their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme that affects longevity that was found at the bottom of the Atlantic, while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one. The Lost Conspiracy Hardinge, Frances 132137 EN MG 6.8 22.0 F 130604 N N - - - After all the Lost except Arilou mysteriously die, and her Lace village is attacked in retribution, Hathin, Arilou's sister and caretaker, must go on a quest to save her people and uncover a dangerous truth. Lost in Spain Wilson, John 46067 EN MG 6.0 6.0 F 37374 N N - - - Ted and his parents are very excited about their vacation in Europe during the summer of 1936. Unfortunately, their longed-for trip leads them directly into the dangers and intrigues of the burgeoning Spanish Civil War. Lost in the Barrens Mowat, Farley 8113 EN UG 6.6 9.0 F 56875 N N - - - This is a young adult adventure novel in which two teenage boys survive winter in the Arctic barren lands of Canada. Lost in the Labyrinth Kindl, Patrice 65430 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 42239 N N - - - Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half- brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Lottery Goobie, Beth 62998 EN UG 6.3 11.0 F 68848 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Sally Hanson, chosen as the latest victim of the Shadow Council, the secret club that controls school life, finds the strength to stand up to the bullies with the help of her brother and other special friends. The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs Gantos, Jack 105990 EN UG 6.5 7.0 F 45411 N N - - - Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother. Love in Idleness Craig, Amanda 82393 EN UG 6.1 14.0 F 84961 N N - - - When Theo Noble and his wife, Polly, rent an Italian villa for their vacation, their idyllic dream of a summer spent relaxing with friends and family is destroyed by meddling parents, an obnoxious journalist, and their own unexplored feelings. The Lovely Bones Sebold, Alice 66874 EN UG 6.0 16.0 F 97914 N N - - N In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life continuing without her -- her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. Lucky Breaks Patron, Susan 128274 EN MG 6.0 6.0 F 37983 N N - - - Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy. Book #2 Lucky for Good Patron, Susan 145217 EN MG 6.5 7.0 F 44290 N N - - - The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, while in the meantime, Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return. Book #3

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Luxe Godbersen, Anna 119498 EN UG 6.8 15.0 F 88982 N N - - - In 1899, the Holland sisters are caught up in a whirlwind of scandal when a family secret threatens their position at the pinnacle of Manhattan society. The Lyre of Orpheus Davies, Robertson 58319 EN UG 6.9 25.0 F 149602 N N - - - The third book of the Cornish trilogy revolves around the staging of an unfinished opera by a 19th century composer. Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Jocelyn, Marthe 75121 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 50534 N N - - N In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley Humdrum, Peril, and Romance dreams of being a writer while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights. Maelstrom McCaffrey, Anne 113513 EN UG 6.3 12.0 F 72276 N N - - - Twins Murel and Ronan must persuade survivors of a meteor shower to leave their world and journey to a new settlement formed by the planet Petaybee. The coauthor is Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Book #2 Magic Can Be Murder Vande Velde, Vivian 43408 EN MG 6.1 7.0 F 45090 N N - - - Nola and her mother have unusual abilities that have always set them apart from others, but when Nola sees a murder using her power to call up images using water and a person's hair, she finds herself in the worst danger ever. Magic Time Zicree, Marc Scott 68895 EN UG 6.6 21.0 F 126247 N N - - - Cal Griffin struggles to save his sister when a secret government experiment goes haywire, knocking out communications across the U.S., creating monsters, and transforming people into their deepest fears. The coauthor is Barbara Hambly.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Magic's Pawn Lackey, Mercedes 58297 EN UG 6.8 20.0 F 119713 N N - - - Though Vanyel has been born with near -legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wants no part of such things. However, such talent left untrained may prove a menace, so he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil. The Magician Scott, Michael 123315 EN MG 6.1 17.0 F 105012 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli. The plot contains graphic descriptions of violence. Book #2 The Magician of Hoad Mahy, Margaret 134182 EN MG+ 6.5 16.0 F 97949 N N - - - A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician. The plot contains mild profanity and violence. The Magicians Grossman, Lev 132770 EN UG 6.3 24.0 F 147480 N N - - - In this "darkly comic" thriller, Quentin Coldwater's education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leads his life on a dangerous adventure. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence. Magyk Sage, Angie 86518 EN MG 6.0 18.0 F 112921 N N - - N After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412. Book #1 Maid Marian: A Novel Watson, Elsa 104818 EN UG 6.9 17.0 F 103127 N N - - - Marian, wed at the age of five and widowed at seventeen, turns to Robin Hood for help in discovering who is selected as her new bridegroom. When the choice is not to her liking, she runs off with the prince of thieves and begins life as an outlaw.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Mairelon the Magician Wrede, Patricia C. 11726 EN UG 6.3 13.0 F 78371 N N - - - A young woman disguised as a boy is made an assistant to a magician trying to save the Society of Magicians. Maisie Dobbs Winspear, Jacqueline 102703 EN UG 6.3 14.0 F 88315 N N - - - Maisie Dobbs finds herself drawn back into the Great War when she begins investigating a recent crime. Major Barbara Shaw, George 76257 EN UG 6.7 6.0 F 33254 N N - - - This is a play with the theme of societal Bernard salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor. The Maltese Falcon Hammett, Dashiell 8662 EN UG 6.0 11.0 F 66373 N N - N N Modern classic of mystery and suspense as private-eye Sam Spade tracks down a statuette worth a fortune. Mama Day Naylor, Gloria 59980 EN UG 6.1 21.0 F 128693 N N - - - On Willow Springs lives Mama Day, a matriarch who can call up lightning storms and see secrets in her dreams. All of Mama Day's powers, however, are tested when her great-niece finds her life and soul in danger from the island's darker forces. The Man with the Silver Oar Moore, Robin 60013 EN UG 6.0 7.0 F 42986 N N - - - In 1718, fifteen-year-old Daniel leaves his guardian uncle's Quaker household to stowaway on a ship in pursuit of a pirate captain bent on raiding the coast of North America before returning to port in Hispaniola. Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali Burns, Khephra 49785 EN MG 6.4 1.0 F 8127 N N - - N This is a fictional account of the nomadic wanderings of the boy who grew up to become Mali's great fourteenth-century leader, Mansa Musa. A Map of the World Hamilton, Jane 31580 EN UG 6.5 26.0 F 155232 N N - - - The Goodhearts have a good life on their Wisconsin dairy farm, until one tragic mistake changes their lives forever.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Marie Antoinette: Princess of Lasky, Kathryn 40137 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 42293 N N - - N In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Versailles Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. Marie, Dancing Meyer, Carolyn 101204 EN MG 6.1 9.0 F 54582 N N - - - This is a fictionalized autobiography of Marie van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture LITTLE DANCER AGED FOURTEEN. The Marsh Birds Sallis, Eva 115283 EN UG 6.5 9.0 F 56438 N N - - - This is the story of Dhurgham, a young Iraqi who has lost everything. Fleetingly, New Zealand offers a refuge, family, and affection, but he is caught again in a nightmare of red-tape until his hope turns into anger, and his past must be faced. The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray 12790 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 56101 N N - N N These haunting stories about man's attempt to explore and settle Mars capture both beauty and horror. Mary Poppins Travers, P.L. 54 EN MG 6.1 6.0 F 38085 N N - N N A young boy and girl embark on a wonderful adventure with their nanny. Mary, Bloody Mary Meyer, Carolyn 2477 EN UG 6.3 8.0 F 46771 N N - - N Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. Masada: The Last Fortress Miklowitz, Gloria D. 56464 EN UG 6.1 8.0 F 49970 N N - - - As the Roman army marches inexorably across the Judean desert toward the fortress of Masada, Simon and his family and friends prepare, along with the rest of the Jewish Zealots, to fight and never surrender. Master's Choice: Mystery Stories Block, Lawrence 82051 EN UG 6.0 14.0 F 88629 N N - - - This book is a collection of mystery by Today's Top Writers and the stories by some of the most popular Masters Who Inspired Them contemporary writers along with classic stories that inspired them.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Maybe Tomorrow Weir, Joan 49513 EN MG 6.5 8.0 F 45522 N N - - - In a time when Canada is still young and prejudice against its native peoples still socially acceptable, two girls from different worlds come together to form a friendship that defies the odds. The Meaning of Consuelo Cofer, Judith Ortiz 77540 EN UG 6.8 10.0 F 58424 N N - - - This coming-of-age story follows Consuelo on her journey from childhood to the unchartered territory of adulthood. Set in 1950s Puerto Rico, both American influence and tragedy threaten to tear apart her family and her traditional Spanish culture. The Member of the Wedding McCullers, Carson 539 EN UG 6.3 9.0 F 58146 N N - N N Frankie Addams is a bored twelve-year- old madly jealous of her brother's impending marriage. Frankie is transformed into F. Jasmine and as F. Jasmine, she looks sixteen and accepts a date with a red-haired soldier. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel Golden, Arthur 44554 EN UG 6.5 31.0 F 186418 N N - - - This is a story about the experiences and emotions of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Midnight at the Dragon Café Bates, Judy Fong 134658 EN UG 6.0 14.0 F 89661 N N - - - In a small Ontario town in the 1960s, a young girl's life is forever changed after she learns a dark family secret and also the power of forgiveness. The plot contains sexual situations. Midnight Predator Atwater-Rhodes, 62978 EN MG+ 6.1 7.0 F 41710 N N - - - Turquoise Draka, once a happy Amelia teenager, is now a hunter committed to no higher purpose than making money and staying alive. Jaguar, a vampire and slave owner, may be just the creature to release the humanity Turquoise long ago locked away. Book #4

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Midnight's Choice Thompson, Kate 36683 EN UG 6.2 7.0 F 44132 N N - - - In this sequel to "Switchers," Tess, who has the ability to change into animal form, must choose between good and evil as she tries to decide whether to "Switch" into a phoenix or a vampire for the rest of time. The Midwife's Apprentice Cushman, Karen 11553 EN MG 6.0 3.0 F 21603 N N - N N In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp- tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. Mimus Thal, Lilli 101689 EN MG+ 6.0 18.0 F 112705 N N - - - This action and adventure novel is set during a dark period of the Middle Ages. A war between kingdoms results in one king mired in treachery and imprisoned, while his son is forced to work with an unpredictable jester, Mimus. The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming Divakaruni, Chitra 103252 EN MG 6.1 13.0 F 80640 N N - - - As twelve-year-old Anand continues his Banerjee studies to become a full-fledged member of The Brotherhood of the Conch, he journeys back to Moghul times, where he encounters powerful sorcerers, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil jinns. Book #2 Mississippi Jack: Being an Account Meyer, L.A. 117249 EN MG+ 6.0 25.0 F 158452 N N - - - In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber of the Further Waterborne continue as she heads west to avoid Adventures of Jacky Faber, capture by the British and discovers Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the adventure aboard a keelboat on the Lily of the West mighty Mississippi River. Book #5 The Mists of Avalon Bradley, Marion 56911 EN UG 6.7 73.0 F 439169 N N - - - This story is a retelling of the Arthurian Zimmer legend through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Monstrous Memoirs of a Zappa, Ahmet 108058 EN MG 6.5 6.0 F 38980 N N - - - With the help of Mr. Devilstone and a Mighty McFearless book called the MONSTRANOMICON, Minerva and her brother Max go to the evil Zarmaglorg's Castle Doominstinkinfart to rescue their father, who they have discovered comes from a long line of monsterminators. Montmorency and the Assassins Updale, Eleanor 104776 EN MG 6.0 15.0 F 95760 N N - - - After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help. Book #3 Montmorency on the Rocks: Updale, Eleanor 87256 EN MG 6.3 12.0 F 71275 N N - - - In Victorian London, when Montmorency Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children. Book #2 Mortal Engines Reeve, Philip 74320 EN MG+ 6.6 13.0 F 77397 N N - - N When cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out- Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another. Book #1 Mother of Pearl Haynes, Melinda 32281 EN UG 6.1 27.0 F 167468 N N - - - Set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950s, this is the story of a twenty-eight year-old black man and a fifteen-year- old white girl who are searching for their roots and identity. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Motherland Vijayaraghavan, 68776 EN UG 6.0 11.0 F 71425 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause Vineeta of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth. Motherless Brooklyn Lethem, Jonathan 35837 EN UG 6.1 15.0 F 94871 N N - - - When Lionel's friend Frank is killed, Lionel is forced to delve into the complex, shadowy web of relationships, threats, and favors that make up the Brooklyn world he thought he knew so well. Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Santana, Patricia 67939 EN UG 6.3 11.0 F 65737 N N - - - Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for Tranquility her brother, Chuy, to return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire family realizes how much the war has changed him, and they must all readjust to his new attitude. The Mouse and His Child Hoban, Russell 23807 EN MG 6.6 8.0 F 48844 N N - - N Once they are bought and leave the safety of the toy shop, the clockwork mouse and his child begin their search for the beautiful doll's house they had once known. Except, always on their track, determined to destroy them, is the evil Manny Rat. The Musician's Daughter Dunlap, Susanne 127435 EN MG 6.5 13.0 F 79057 N N - - - In 18th-century Vienna, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist at the court of Prince Esterhazy. The plot contains mild sexual references. My Antonia Cather, Willa 713 EN UG 6.9 14.0 F 79947 N N - N N In this portrait of a pioneer woman, the strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description My Best Friend, the Atlantic Ocean, Harrington, Jane 120216 EN MG 6.0 5.0 F 30962 N N - - - Delia uses her freshman English poetry and Other Great Bodies Standing journal to share her feelings about the Between Me and My Life with romance between her best friend, Giulio Brady, and the new exchange student, Giulio. My Contract with Henry Vaupel, Robin 70881 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 57739 N N - - - A mission that begins as an eighth- grade project on Henry David Thoreau's experimental living at Walden Pond becomes a life-changing experience for a group of outsider students who become budding philosophers, environmental activists, and loyal friends. My Sister from the Black Lagoon: A Fox, Laurie 68833 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 95816 N N - - - This autobiographical novel tells, in Novel of My Life graphic detail, the story of Lorna Person, who lives in the shadow cast by her mentally ill, elder sister Lonnie, whose rages command the full attention of their parents. The Mysterious Howling Wood, Maryrose 135540 EN MG 6.8 9.0 F 51086 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Penelope, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner in time for a Christmas ball. Book #1 Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, and Evans, Hestia 121267 EN MG 6.6 2.0 F 12535 N N - - - This book introduces Greek mythology, Monsters of Ancient Greece exploring the creation of the gods, the origins of humankind, the war against Troy, monsters and beasts, and provides information on Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, and other gods and goddesses.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Nacky Patcher and the Curse of Kluger, Jeffrey 115268 EN MG 6.7 20.0 F 117484 N N - - - When Nacky Patcher and orphaned the Dry-Land Boats eleven-year-old Teedie Flinn discover a huge wrecked boat in a small mountain lake near their town, they try to unite all the inhabitants to help rebuild the vessel, an endeavor that forever changes all their lives. Napoleon's Pyramids Dietrich, William 115311 EN UG 6.4 21.0 F 128542 N N - - - Expatriate American Ethan Gage wins an ancient medallion in a card game that may hold the secrets of the pyramids but must flee for his life when he is framed for a murder and forced to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte on his quest to conquer Egypt. Native Son (The Original 1940 Wright, Richard 5992 EN UG 6.1 24.0 F 147797 N N - N N Bigger, a young black man in Chicago, Text) kills his first victim in a moment of panic. He then goes on to kill again. The book describes the feelings of freedom and identity Bigger gains from these acts. The Natural Malamud, Bernard 55938 EN UG 6.3 12.0 F 72358 N N - - - Roy Hobbs returns to the Major Leagues at age 34. Still a tremendous player, he carries his team into the race for the National League pennant. However, he is plagued with romantic indecision and the temptation to fix games. Nectar in a Sieve Markandaya, Kamala 63414 EN UG 6.2 10.0 F 61079 N N - - - This is the story of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India, whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved. Never Let Me Go Ishiguro, Kazuo 107851 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 96374 N N - - - Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description New Boy Houston, Julian 102868 EN UG 6.1 12.0 F 75430 N N - - - As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black man is witness to the persecution of another student with bad acne and is befriended by an upperclassman who is Jewish. North Star Conspiracy Monfredo, Miriam 59832 EN UG 6.1 18.0 F 112839 N N - - - Glynis Tyron investigates the death of a Grace freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists. Nothing Teller, Janne 136011 EN UG 6.1 5.0 F 29370 N N - - - In this powerful but disturbing story, thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon announces that "nothing matters," and his classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life. The plot contains sexual situations, graphic violence, and sacrilege. Nothing But the Truth (and a Few Headley, Justina 105939 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 61970 N N - - - Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half White Lies) Chen Taiwanese and half white, feels she never fits in, but when her overly strict mother ships her off to math camp at Stanford, instead of being miserable, Patty starts to become comfortable with her true self. Now You See It... Vande Velde, Vivian 83181 EN MG+ 6.1 8.0 F 52635 N N - - N With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anything they can to get them. Obasan Kogawa, Joy 8084 EN MG 6.6 12.0 F 73950 N N - - - The story of what happened to a Japanese family in Canada during World War II. Oddballs Sleator, William 10294 EN UG 6.2 3.0 F 16363 N N - - - A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Ogre of Oglefort Ibbotson, Eva 145222 EN MG 6.1 8.0 F 46712 N N - - - When the Hag of Dribble, an orphan boy, a wizard, and a troll called Ulf are sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, it turns out to be far from the routine magical mission they expect. On a Pale Horse Anthony, Piers 75162 EN UG 6.0 17.0 F 103398 N N - - - Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of Death, where he confronts questions of good and evil, and right and wrong. On the Beach Shute, Nevil 8666 EN UG 6.3 14.0 F 88350 N N - N N This is the chilling story of small community doomed to nuclear destruction. On Wings of a Dragon Taylor, Cora 53774 EN MG+ 6.1 10.0 F 64795 N N - - - Protected by her dragon companion, a young woman is sent on a dangerous mission to restore the kingdom to its rightful heir. Once a Hero Moon, Elizabeth 20128 EN UG 6.9 21.0 F 125252 N N - - - All Esmay Suiza wanted was a secure berth where she could be part of something greater than herself and otherwise just live her life in peace, but she finds herself in the middle of a space battle. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken 8667 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 108095 N N - - - The story of a mental patient and his struggle not to conform, especially to the rules of the head nurse. One Foot Ashore Greene, Jacqueline 60439 EN UG 6.1 8.0 F 52145 N N - - - Arriving alone and destitute in Dembar Amsterdam in the spring of 1654, sixteen-year-old Maria Ben Lazar finds refuge and friendship in the household of the artist Rembrandt and continues to pursue her desperate search for her parents and her younger sister.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Operation Red Jericho Mowll, Joshua 104777 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 56003 N N - - - While on board the "Expedient" in 1920 Shanghai, Doug and Becca MacKenzie learn of the Honourable Guild of Specialists and become caught up in an astonishing adventure involving a possible new source of power and its potential for good or evil. Ophelia Klein, Lisa M. 111938 EN UG 6.2 14.0 F 83476 N N - - - In a story based on Shakespeare's HAMLET, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark. Outcast Allston, Aaron 132446 EN UG 6.5 16.0 F 94927 N N - - - With the Galactic Alliance still in recovery from the civil war, Luke Skywalker goes on a quest with his son, Ben, to unravel the mystery of what drew Jacen Solo to the dark side. Book #1 Outcast of Redwall Jacques, Brian 15097 EN MG 6.3 15.0 F 93717 N N - - N The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey. The Outside Chance of Maximillian Torgov, Morley 65924 EN MG 6.7 9.0 F 56609 N N - - - Maximillian Glick is a 13-year-old only Glick child smothered by the doting affections of his overprotective parents and eager to pursue a career in music. Over and Under Tucker, Todd 137896 EN UG 6.6 13.0 F 76105 N N - - - The bond of friendship is tested when the fathers of two 12-year-old boys become enemies during the Borden Casket Company labor strike. When violence erupts, the boys can no longer ignore the world has forever changed. The plot contains violence.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Winspear, Jacqueline 129924 EN UG 6.3 17.0 F 104306 N N - - - Detective Maisie Dobbs agrees to help a Novel dying woman find her son, who was reportedly killed in the Great War, and finds himself thrown into a case that tests her spiritual strength and her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. Book #3 Parrot in the Oven Martínez, Víctor 20130 EN UG 6.1 7.0 F 44063 N N - - - Manny relates his coming-of-age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. The plot contains profanity and adult themes. Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Paterson, Katherine 18784 EN MG 6.0 3.0 F 19564 N N - - N A retelling of the Arthurian legend in Knight which Parzival, unaware of his noble birth, comes of age through his quest for the Holy Grail. Pathfinder Card, Orson Scott 141387 EN MG+ 6.3 29.0 F 175160 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him. Peace Like a River Enger, Leif 64033 EN UG 6.3 18.0 F 109572 N N - - - In the winter of Rube's eleventh year, two schoolyard bullies break into the Lands' house, and his big brother Davy guns them down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the run while the Lands search for him. Pearls of Lutra Jacques, Brian 15829 EN MG 6.1 18.0 F 108908 N N - - N Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls, while at the same time the evil marten Mad Eyes desires them for himself.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Penelopiad: The Myth of Atwood, Margaret 110537 EN UG 6.9 5.0 F 29912 N N - - - This is the story of Penelope, the faithful Penelope and Odysseus and devoted wife of Odysseus, and her twelve maids, who were killed upon the master's return. People of the Book Brooks, Geraldine 122407 EN UG 6.5 21.0 F 124964 N N - - - Rare book expert Hanna Heath discovers a number of tiny artifacts hidden within the binding of a fifteenth- century Hebrew manuscript and begins to unravel the mysteries behind its past. The Perfect Shot Alphin, Elaine Marie 101802 EN UG 6.1 14.0 F 85206 N N - - - Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served. A Perfect Stranger: And Other Robinson, Roxana 105187 EN UG 6.0 12.0 F 74325 N N - - - This collection of thirteen short stories Stories by Roxana Robinson explore how life can be dictated by one's secrets, needs, and longings. The Perilous Gard Pope, Elizabeth 54691 EN MG 6.3 14.0 F 82967 N N - - N In 1558, while imprisoned in a remote Marie castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that lead to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic. Petals in the Ashes Hooper, Mary 81219 EN UG 6.3 8.0 F 49090 N N - - - In 1666, Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire. The Phantom Isles Alter, Stephen 115241 EN MG 6.8 8.0 F 48770 N N - - - Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Phantom Menace: Episode I Brooks, Terry 66942 EN UG 6.7 14.0 F 86470 N N - - - A blockade of the planet Naboo by the Trade Federation threatens to lead to a war which two Jedi ambassadors try to prevent. The Phantom Tollbooth Juster, Norton 130 EN MG 6.7 7.0 F 42156 N N - N N In this wise and witty fantasy, a boy travels through time and space to the Lands Beyond. Pillars of Gold and Silver Garza, Beatriz de la 34998 EN MG 6.3 11.0 F 66580 N N - - - After her father is killed in the Korean War, young Blanca Estela and her mother leave California to spend the summer in Mexico with Blanca's grandmother. Platero and I Jiménez, Juan 44143 EN MG 6.4 1.0 F 5454 N N - - - This book presents a picture of life in the Ramón town of Moguer, in Andalusia, Spain, as seen through the eyes of a wandering poet and his faithful donkey. Pocahontas Bruchac, Joseph 71138 EN MG 6.3 7.0 F 41675 N N - - - This story, told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Engle, Margarita 121445 EN MG+ 6.3 2.0 F 12804 N N - - - Poems from different points of view tell Biography of Juan Francisco of a Cuban boy whose gifts made him Manzano special, but did not set him free. Poison Wooding, Chris 100129 EN UG 6.3 13.0 F 81139 N N - - - When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve her sister who was snatched by the phaeries, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny. The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara 35204 EN UG 6.6 29.0 F 177679 N N - - - This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Pompeii Harris, Robert 78455 EN UG 6.7 16.0 F 95920 N N - - - A young engineer, struggling to save the city of Pompeii from crisis, soon discovers that there are both natural and man-made forces at work against him. Pop Princess Cohn, Rachel 77435 EN UG 6.4 12.0 F 71227 N N - - - Wonder Blake gets the chance to escape the small Massachusetts town where her family retreated after her sister's death, when her sister's manager offers Wonder a record contract on her sixteenth birthday. Posh Jackson, Lucy 112934 EN UG 6.8 12.0 F 70236 N N - - - At a prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, headmistress Kathryn Hoffman struggles to balance her career, an illicit affair, and her troublesome relationship with her mother as her students find love, danger, and betrayal within the school's walls. Powder Monkey Dowswell, Paul 102860 EN MG+ 6.3 10.0 F 62221 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS "Miranda" during the Napoleonic Wars. The Power of One Courtenay, Bryce 66943 EN UG 6.9 37.0 F 221385 N N - - - This book follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life. The Power of One (Young Courtenay, Bryce 102972 EN MG+ 6.3 15.0 F 89515 N N - - - This book follows Peekay, a white Readers' Edition) British boy in South Africa during World War II, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to success in the boxing ring. A Practical Guide to Dragons Trumbauer, Lisa 115064 EN MG 6.6 2.0 F 9496 N N - - - This book presents a practical guide to a Trutkoff variety of dragons through colorful illustrations and drawings.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Prep: A Novel Sittenfeld, Curtis 86510 EN UG 6.5 26.0 F 159990 N N - - - In this coming-of-age novel, Lee Fiora's father takes her to a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts where she manages to survive in spite of the social differences between her and her classmates and an intimate affair with a popular boy. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Hockensmith, Steve 137116 EN UG 6.1 13.0 F 83098 N N - - - The parody continues when the dead Dawn of the Dreadfuls suddenly come to life, and as Elizabeth's family is trained to defend themselves, two men compete for her heart, the warrior who trains the Bennets to kill and the doctor who hopes to solve the problem. Prince Edward McFarland, Dennis 105183 EN UG 6.8 20.0 F 119391 N N - - - Ten-year-old Benjamin is forced to consider issues when his hometown of Farmville, Virginia, becomes caught up in the efforts of Prince Edward County to close the public schools in response to the passage of desegregation laws in 1959. The Prince of Mist Ruiz Zafón, Carlos 114969 EN MG+ 6.5 7.0 F 44379 N N - - - In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max and sister, fifteen- year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he dies. The Prince of Tides Conroy, Pat 62985 EN UG 6.3 41.0 F 251476 N N - - - This is the story of Tom Wingo, his twin Sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Princess Academy Hale, Shannon 104732 EN MG 6.0 10.0 F 63201 N N - - N While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year -old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. Princess in Pink Cabot, Meg 77562 EN UG 6.0 9.0 F 54810 N N - - N Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom. Book #5

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Princess of Glass George, Jessica Day 137436 EN MG 6.2 9.0 F 58529 N N - - - In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her. A Princess of Landover Brooks, Terry 132443 EN UG 6.1 18.0 F 109916 N N - - - Fate draws Landover's intrepid princess, Mistaya Holiday, to the last place she expected to go and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test and might bring the kingdom to its knees. Book #6 Pulling Princes O'Connell, Tyne 104788 EN MG+ 6.4 8.0 F 46942 N N - - - Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen- year-old Calypso Kelly invents a fake boyfriend, until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life prince. Book #1 Punkzilla Rapp, Adam 129827 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 54550 N N - - - A runaway teenager, having overcome an addiction to meth, travels across the country to reconnect with his dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along the way. The plot contains sexual situations and profanity. The Quarter-Pie Window Brandis, Marianne 46712 EN MG 6.1 10.0 F 59493 N N - - - This sequel to "The Tinderbox" finds Emma Anderson has moved to the city of York where she struggles for herself and her younger brother while under the stern guardianship of Mrs. McPhail. The window in her room provides her only solace. The Queen of Attolia Turner, Megan 36676 EN MG+ 6.7 14.0 F 82579 N N - - - Forsaken by the gods and left to his own Whalen devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia. Book #2

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Queen's Man: A Medieval Penman, Sharon Kay 64227 EN UG 6.5 16.0 F 98702 N N - - - Justin de Quincy, the illegitimate son of Mystery a high cleric, becomes invaluable to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine when he delivers a letter to her with information about the fate of her first-born son, Richard Lionheart, England's king. Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Yolen, Jane 40715 EN UG 6.0 12.0 F 77809 N N - - N When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Mary Queen of Scots Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland. The coauthor is Robert J. Harris. Book #1 A Question of Attraction Nicholls, David 86677 EN UG 6.3 17.0 F 104574 N N - - - Brian Jackson, on scholarship at a British university in 1985, struggles with issues of class, acne, and love in his quest to win a spot on the popular television quiz show UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE and to raise himself above his humble beginnings. Rabbit at Rest Updike, John 10843 EN UG 6.8 31.0 F 184591 N N - - - An aging basketball player explores the bleak terrain of his late middle age. Rabbit Hill Lawson, Robert 71 EN MG 6.4 3.0 F 20482 N N - N N The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House. Raging River Withers, Pam 75382 EN MG+ 6.6 6.0 F 39122 N N - - - Rivals and sometime friends Peter and Jake are forced to work together when they are called upon to confront dangerous rapids in order to find help for their whitewater-rafting companions who have become stranded in the wilderness. Book #1 Rasputin's Daughter Alexander, Robert 110914 EN UG 6.7 13.0 F 78053 N N - - - Maria, the young, spirited daughter of Rasputin, spends her father's final days trying to unlock the mystery of her father's involvement in the disappearance of the Russian Royal Family.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Raven Speak Wilson, Diane Lee 136984 EN UG 6.6 10.0 F 62165 N N - - - In 854, the bold fourteen-year-old daughter of a Viking chieftain, aided by her old and thin but equally intrepid horse and an ancient, one-eyed seer, must find a way to keep her clan together and save them from starvation. Raven's Cry Harris, Christie 47879 EN MG 6.6 8.0 F 49841 N N - - - This book is a Northwest Coast classic, a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the destruction of the Haida nation. The Reader Schlink, Bernhard 28486 EN UG 6.7 7.0 F 44819 N N - - - When he falls ill on his way home from school, Michael is rescued by Hannah, a woman twice his age, and in time he falls in love with her. The Real Thief Steig, William 286 EN MG 6.1 1.0 F 8944 N N - - N When Gawain the goose is deserted by his friends after being unjustly convicted of stealing from his beloved king, the real thief is tortured by his conscience. A Really Nice Prom Mess Sloan, Brian 87463 EN UG 6.4 14.0 F 88051 N N - - - Gay high school senior Cameron endures a disastrous prom night when forced to take a girl as his date. After fleeing the dance in disguise, he finds himself involved in a surprising performance, a high-speed police chase and unexpected revelations. Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne 543 EN UG 6.8 26.0 F 152798 N N - - N Is Rebecca really dead? Her insidious influence seems to extend beyond the grave. A modern masterpiece of romantic suspense. Rebecca's Flame Kositsky, Lynne 43377 EN MG 6.7 7.0 F 38948 N N - - - Rebecca, the daughter of a middle-class Jewish merchant has escaped the worst of the potato famine. One day she meets Sean, a poor Catholic boy whose family is starving and her life is changed forever.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom Paterson, Katherine 10136 EN UG 6.0 10.0 F 61220 N N - - - Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society based on Christian principles and dedicated to overthrow the Manchu government. Red River Tademy, Lalita 112439 EN UG 6.6 19.0 F 115707 N N - - - This book is the story of two Louisiana families, three generations of African American men, and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond. Redwork Bedard, Michael 43378 EN UG 6.4 14.0 F 85689 N N - - - All the neighborhood children are frightened of Cass's landlord, Mr. Magus, and even Cass thinks his vivid dreams of trench warfare, pain, and fear are somehow connected to the strange old man. Regarding the Sink: Where, Oh Klise, Kate 117252 EN MG 6.0 3.0 F 20913 N N - - - A series of letters reveals the selection Where, Did Waters Go? of the famous fountain designer, Florence Waters, to design a new sink for the Geyser Creek Middle School cafeteria, her subsequent disappearance, and the efforts of a class of sixth-graders to find her. Remembrance Breslin, Theresa 67258 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 66095 N N - - - The destinies of two Scottish families, one of shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love. The Rifle Paulsen, Gary 14483 EN MG 6.8 3.0 F 16877 N N - - N A priceless, handcrafted rifle carried throughout the American Revolution is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Ringside 1925: Views from the Bryant, Jen 120732 EN MG+ 6.6 4.0 F 25638 N N - - - Marybeth, Pete, Jimmy Lee, and Willy Scopes Trial never would have believed their town of Dayton, Tennessee, would play host to one of the most controversial trials in America, that of their teacher, J.T. Scopes, of teaching evolution in his high school classroom. River, Cross My Heart Clarke, Breena 34772 EN UG 6.5 11.0 F 68615 N N - - - This book vividly describes the effects of a young girl's tragic death on her family and the neighborhood she has left behind The Road to Camlann Sutcliff, Rosemary 42791 EN UG 6.8 6.0 F 38158 N N - - - The evil Mordred, plotting against his father King Arthur, implicates the Queen and Sir Lancelot in treachery and brings about the downfall of Camelot and the Round Table. The Roar Clayton, Emma 129388 EN MG 6.0 18.0 F 109670 N N - - - In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted. Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona Platt, Richard 129945 EN MG 6.0 2.0 F 12785 N N - - - Step back to Rome in AD 107 and take of Mytilini, Who Was Captured and in the luxury of the baths, the splendor Sold as a Slave in Rome, AD 107 of the Senate, the thrill of gladiatorial combat, and the excesses of Roman feasts in this fictional diary. Romeo & Juliet & Vampires Gabel, Claudia 138917 EN UG 6.5 8.0 F 48692 N N - - - In this twist on William Shakespeare's classic play, Juliet is a vampire-to-be and Romeo is the human vampire hunter who is supposed to destroy her. The Ropemaker Dickinson, Peter 58070 EN UG 6.3 21.0 F 128537 N N - - N When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Rose Daughter McKinley, Robin 18554 EN UG 6.8 24.0 F 141511 N N - - - Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast. The Rose That Grew from Shakur, Tupac 83817 EN UG 6.3 1.0 F 6028 N N - - - Written in his own hand at the age of Concrete nineteen, this collection of poems conveys Tupac Shakur's most honest and intimate thoughts, giving insight into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. The Rosetta Key Dietrich, William 122290 EN UG 6.0 18.0 F 110362 N N - - - American adventurer Ethan Gage, accused of treason by Napoleon's men, sets out to find a magical ancient Egyptian scroll and his former lover Astiza, who is being held captive by the count and sorcerer Alessandro Silano. The Rover Odom, Mel 70718 EN UG 6.2 23.0 F 143617 N N - - - Edgewick Lamplighter, a little halfling librarian, hardly has time to daydream of adventure before it finds him -- in the form of pirates, slaveholders, and thieves. Book #1 Rule of the Bone Banks, Russell 68448 EN UG 6.4 20.0 F 120459 N N - - - This is the story of a troubled fourteen- year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself. Rundown Cadnum, Michael 32274 EN UG 6.1 6.0 F 35964 N N - - - As a game, sixteen-year-old Jennifer pretends that she has been attacked by a serial rapist, but then she finds herself getting more attention than she wanted, from the police and her parents. The Sacred Seal Mills, Judith C. 56609 EN MG 6.1 13.0 F 79204 N N - - - Join Sam and his wonderfully strange companion, Mr. Goodfellow, as they embark on a marvelous journey to find a missing Professor and a legendary scroll.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Sacrifice Matcheck, Diane 26520 EN UG 6.5 7.0 F 44951 N N - - - When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka people, a fifteen-year-old girl sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One. The Saint of Lost Things: A Novel Castellani, 108072 EN UG 6.0 16.0 F 100182 N N - - - In a small Italian neighborhood in 1953 Christopher Delaware, Maddalena Grasso struggles to adapt to life in America as she longs for her native country. When she falls ill, her husband's family must draw on the strength and faith of their neighbors. Samurai Spirit: Ancient Wisdom for Konzak, Burt 65160 EN UG 6.4 5.0 F 31432 N N - - - These ancient stories that inspired Modern Life warriors so long ago have special significance for today's teens who face battles of their own: bullies, self-doubt, lack of confidence and battles with the injustices they see around them. Sarah Halter, Marek 83736 EN UG 6.0 13.0 F 83197 N N - - - This story presents the life of the Old Testament character Sarah, the daughter of a powerful lord who employs drastic measures in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage, and whose actions lead her to give up her exalted life to join Abram. Sarah Card, Orson Scott 102572 EN UG 6.2 16.0 F 100957 N N - - - This first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis tells the story of Sarah, wife of Abraham, who, according to the Bible, became a mother in old age according to God's will. Savvy Law, Ingrid 122451 EN MG 6.0 9.0 F 57148 N N - - N Mibs Beaumont's thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy," a magical power unique to each member of her family, just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Second Time Around Clark, Mary Higgins 73600 EN UG 6.0 14.0 F 86987 N N - - - Reporter Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she sets out to investigate the disappearance of Nicholas Spencer, the head of the medical research company Gen-stone, who reportedly looted the company and fled. Secondhand World: A Novel Min, Katherine 111331 EN UG 6.2 9.0 F 58177 N N - - - Isa refuses to conform to the traditional meek and quiet role that daughters of Asian Americans are often forced into and embarks on a journey of sexual and self awareness with an albino boy her parents do not accept. The Secret Garden (Unabridged) Burnett, Frances 78 EN MG 6.3 13.0 F 80398 N N - N N Mary moves to a huge estate to live with Hodgson her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants--and a secret garden. The Secret of Castle Cant Bath, K.P. 80188 EN MG 6.6 12.0 F 70733 N N - - N When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron's daughter, the Adored & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues. Secret of the Sirens Golding, Julia 115060 EN MG 6.6 14.0 F 83427 N N - - - Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie joins a secret society that shelters mythical creatures and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans. Book #1 The Secret River Grenville, Kate 111334 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 111774 N N - - - William Thornhill is deported to the New South Wales colony where he struggles to wrest a new life for his family from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Secret Sacrament Jordan, Sherryl 46854 EN UG 6.6 17.0 F 105350 N N - - - A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navoran people and the Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and trains to be a Healer. Seeing Emily Wong, Joyce Lee 103455 EN UG 6.5 5.0 F 30764 N N - - - This book relates in free verse the experiences of sixteen-year-old Emily, a gifted artist and the daughter of immigrants to the United States, as she tries to reconcile her American self with her Chinese heritage. The Serial Garden: The Complete Aiken, Joan 126271 EN MG 6.2 17.0 F 107630 N N - - - These twenty-four stories follow the Armitage Family Stories adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Armitage and their children, Harriet, Mark, and little Milo, as they try to find innovative ways to cope with a variety of extraordinary events. Shade's Children Nix, Garth 28460 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 69100 N N - - - In a savage postnuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the blood-thirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor. Shades of Simon Gray McDonald, Joyce 57930 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 61119 N N - - - Seventeen-year-old Simon lies in a coma, finding his space and time overlapping with that of a man who was lynched over two hundred years ago. Shadow of the Hegemon Card, Orson Scott 46855 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 113827 N N - - - The Formic War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of child warriors. However, Earth has become a battlefield once more, and, one by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Shadow Puppets Card, Orson Scott 62980 EN UG 6.1 16.0 F 97471 N N - - - This is the continuing story of Bean, Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Shakespeare's Scribe Blackwood, Gary L. 44828 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 62357 N N - - N In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen -year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parents along the way. Shattered Sky Shusterman, Neal 59215 EN UG 6.4 25.0 F 152177 N N - - - In this apocalyptic final installment of the trilogy, the Star Shards will be tested as they never have before, and the true cost of their gifts will at last be revealed. Shiva's Fire Staples, Suzanne 39882 EN UG 6.8 11.0 F 65626 N N - - N In India, a talented dancer gives up Fisher friends and family for her art. Shoulder the Sky: A Novel Perry, Anne 86684 EN UG 6.1 18.0 F 113055 N N - - - During a rescue mission during World War I, Chaplain Joseph Reavley finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice, who appears to have been killed by one of his own compatriots, and vows to learn the truth behind the man's death. Shrimp Cohn, Rachel 86332 EN UG 6.8 13.0 F 75134 N N - - - Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd Charisse attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, and make some girlfriends. In the process, she begins to feel more a part of her family. The Sight Clement-Davies, 59131 EN UG 6.1 23.0 F 145551 N N - - - In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, David a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy from calling upon a legendary evil one that will give her the power to control all animals. The Sign of the Scales Brandis, Marianne 43345 EN UG 6.6 11.0 F 66894 N N - - - This book is the third story of Emma, now nearly sixteen, working as an assistant in a shop in 1830's York. The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer Strickland, Brad 125005 EN MG 6.0 6.0 F 38368 N N - - - In Michigan in the mid-1950s, Lewis Barnavelt is convinced that the series of accidents he and his uncle are experiencing are the result of a curse by a mysterious, hooded figure who may be part of his uncle's past.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Simon's Family Fredriksson, 70084 EN UG 6.4 18.0 F 108149 N N - - - Simon, adopted by his aunt and uncle at Marianne birth, grows up in World War II Sweden feeling that he does not fit in Scandinavia, but his situation changes when he meets Isak, a young Jewish boy from Germany, and the two children and families become friends. A Single Shard Park, Linda Sue 49768 EN MG 6.6 6.0 F 33726 N N - - N Tree-ear, an orphan in Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the celadon ceramics himself. A Singular Hostage Ali, Thalassa 87228 EN UG 6.1 21.0 F 130524 N N - - - Mariana Givens has joined British Governor-General Lord Auckland, who is traveling across India to meet with the fabled Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab. During the trip, she becomes involved in the kidnapping of one of the Maharajah's hostages. Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore 76002 EN UG 6.4 26.0 F 156272 N N - - - Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late- nineteenth-century Chicago and New York. The Sky So Big and Black Barnes, John 63183 EN UG 6.7 14.0 F 85711 N N - - - Terpsichore is growing up on Mars. Her father, an ecoprospector, wants her along on his next trip. What happens next will change Terpsichore, change Mars, and will open the door to a new chapter in the history of intelligent beings in the solar system. Slake's Limbo Holman, Felice 5335 EN UG 6.4 4.0 F 24200 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees them into New York City's subway tunnels, never again--he believes--to emerge.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut, Kurt 16724 EN UG 6.0 8.0 F 49459 N N - N N From the World War Two firebombing of Dresden to the distant planet called Tralfamadore, the reader follows Billy Pilgrim in his attempt to understand the natures of time and existence. Sleeper Agenda Sniegoski, Tom 108526 EN UG 6.8 10.0 F 60163 N N - - - Tom shares a body with Tyler Garrett, a separate personality who has committed cold-blooded murder without a second thought. Now, Tom is on a mission to take down the evil agency that created him. Sleeper Code Sniegoski, Tom 108527 EN UG 6.3 9.0 F 57405 N N - - - Tom's about to make a shocking discovery: He's actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic fits are cover for his horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler Garrett, a separate personality. Smiling for Strangers Hiçyilmaz, Gaye 39884 EN UG 6.0 7.0 F 41015 N N - - - During the war, fourteen-year-old Nina flees her village in Yugoslavia, armed only with some letters and a photograph, to search for an old friend of her mother's in England. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: See, Lisa 112895 EN UG 6.5 16.0 F 99862 N N - - - Friends Snow Flower and Lily find A Novel solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China. Solitary: Escape from Furnace Smith, Alexander 141390 EN MG+ 6.5 10.0 F 63504 N N - - - Imprisoned for a murder he did not Gordon 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. Book #2 Somebody's Daughter Lee, Marie Myung-Ok 102562 EN UG 6.3 15.0 F 89551 N N - - - Adopted and raised by Scandinavian American parents in Minnesota, a Korean teenager returns to her native country to find her mother.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Someday This Pain Will Be Useful Cameron, Peter 117931 EN UG 6.0 9.0 F 58396 N N - - - Eighteen-year-old James, living in New to You York City with his older sister and divorced mother, struggles with issues of being gay and finding a direction for his life. Something Remains Barth-Grözinger, Inge 109782 EN MG 6.3 17.0 F 107120 N N - - - In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows. Something Rotten Fforde, Jasper 85253 EN UG 6.2 18.0 F 112445 N N - - - Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles, literally, in the world of fiction, seeks to resurrect her husband when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet. Sorcery & Cecelia or the Wrede, Patricia C. 69122 EN UG 6.7 13.0 F 80594 N N - - - In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Enchanted Chocolate Pot Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of Ninh, Bao 102593 EN UG 6.6 12.0 F 69631 N N - - - Kien, an ex-soldier and struggling writer, North Vietnam tries to come to grips with his painful youth, shattered love, and the horrors of the Vietnam conflict. Spaceman Blues: A Love Song Slattery, Brian 120988 EN UG 6.9 9.0 F 55658 N N - - - When Manuel disappears, Wendell Francis decides to find out what happened. As Wendell tracks Manuel, the prophecies of the apocalyptic Church of Panic begin coming true: aliens threaten to invade Earth. The plot contains profanity and references to drug use.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Specials Westerfeld, Scott 106651 EN MG+ 6.1 12.0 F 76787 N N - - N Beauty guaranteed, but at a certain price, as Tally's seen it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down, and the pretties stupid. Book #3 Spider Sparrow King-Smith, Dick 35644 EN MG 6.1 5.0 F 33256 N N - N N Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II. Spirit Horse Ackerman, Ned 32944 EN MG 6.0 5.0 F 31923 N N - - - A Siksika boy living on the Plains during the 1770s tames the legendary spirit horse and discovers what qualities are truly important in life. Sprout Peck, Dale 130008 EN UG 6.3 13.0 F 77011 N N - - - Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and love. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence. Stained Glass Bedard, Michael 58581 EN UG 6.5 11.0 F 68798 N N - - - Charles Endicott hides out at St. Bart's Church to avoid his piano lesson, but his life is turned upside down when a homeless girl is cut by a falling stained glass window. The Star of Kazan Ibbotson, Eva 80746 EN MG 6.1 16.0 F 96516 N N - - N After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Star of the Sea O'Connor, Joseph 114782 EN UG 6.5 23.0 F 138239 N N - - - In the winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the "Star of the Sea" sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many desperate. Among them is a killer stalking the decks, hungry for vengeance. Star Split Lasky, Kathryn 35287 EN UG 6.0 7.0 F 42662 N N - - N In 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci finds out that she is part of an underground movement to save the human race from genetic enhancement technology. Stardust Gaiman, Neil 41481 EN UG 6.2 10.0 F 59001 N N - - - One fateful night, young Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town and the Faerie realm. The Starplace Grove, Vicki 31192 EN MG 6.0 7.0 F 45358 N N - N N Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961. Starship Troopers Heinlein, Robert A. 79170 EN UG 6.9 14.0 F 84769 N N - - - This book follows an army recruit of the future through the toughest boot camp of the Universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most alarming enemy. Steampunk! An Anthology of Link, Kelly 146335 EN UG 6.2 19.0 F 114863 N N - - - This collection of fourteen fantasy Fantastically Rich and Strange stories by well-known authors are set in Stories the age of steam engines and feature automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels. The coeditor is Gavin J. Grant. The Sterkarm Handshake Price, Susan 43596 EN UG 6.0 24.0 F 152420 N N - - - Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Stolen Child Donohue, Keith 111325 EN UG 6.5 17.0 F 105245 N N - - - Henry Day, a boy stolen by changelings at the age of seven, and the look-alike hobgoblin sent to replace him both grow up feeling out of place in their respective worlds. Their search for answers about their pasts puts them on a collision course. The Stone Goddess Ho, Minfong 76595 EN MG+ 6.3 7.0 F 41070 N N - - - After the Communists take over Cambodia and her family is torn from their city life, twelve-year-old Nakri and her older sister attempt to maintain their hope as well as their classical dancing skills in the midst of their struggle to survive. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David 126581 EN UG 6.1 31.0 F 192203 N N - - - In a tale reminiscent of HAMLET that also celebrates the bond between dogs and humans, speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his uncle is responsible for his father's death. Stowaway Hesse, Karen 44830 EN MG 6.1 11.0 F 66887 N N - - N This book relates in journal form, the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771, aboard the "Endeavour," which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. Strange but True Searles, John 86766 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 118340 N N - - - Philip Chase moves back home with his mother who is still grieving over the death of Ronnie, her younger son, five years earlier. But life takes an unusual turn when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up nine months pregnant with Ronnie's child. The Stranger Camus, Albert 5997 EN UG 6.8 6.0 F 32820 N N - - N Camus asks if there is a God or just a cold, indifferent universe in this story of the trial of a man who commits a pointless murder.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description A Stranger Came Ashore Hunter, Mollie 29758 EN UG 6.2 6.0 F 37403 N N - - - Earth magic and sea magic clash in a vivid tale of shipwreck, superstition and danger when twelve-year-old Robbie Henderson has to rescue his sister Elspeth from the Great Selkie. Stravaganza: City of Masks Hoffman, Mary 75916 EN MG+ 6.2 13.0 F 81597 N N - - N While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city. Book #1 The Street Petry, Ann 71299 EN UG 6.2 19.0 F 119799 N N - - - This book tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf Hartnett, Sonya 85480 EN MG 6.6 8.0 F 45789 N N - - - Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a rare striped tiger. Stuart Little White, E.B. 194 EN MG 6.0 3.0 F 18841 N N - N N Stuart, an inventive and debonair mouse, has a great adventure. The Subtle Knife Pullman, Philip 17842 EN UG 6.2 16.0 F 98641 N N - - N As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. Book #2 Sula Morrison, Toni 59172 EN UG 6.4 8.0 F 46582 N N - - - This is a sorrowful, touching, sometimes funny tale of two women who share everything as childhood friends in their small, segregated Ohio town, but are later torn apart by the radically different paths they choose to follow.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Summerland Chabon, Michael 64512 EN MG 6.3 22.0 F 132493 N N - - N Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League gathers to play. It is being threatened by an ancient enemy and it is up to Ethan Feld and his motley crew to save Summerland and the world. Sunshine McKinley, Robin 75585 EN UG 6.3 25.0 F 154497 N N - - - Sunshine is abducted by a vampire, and as she waits through the night, fearing the worst, she forms an unlikely bond with her captor. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Engle, Margarita 121475 EN MG 6.4 2.0 F 12053 N N - - - Rosa knows how to heal sickness with Cuba's Struggle for Freedom medicines made from wild plants, but with a price on her head for helping the rebels, she dare not go out in the open. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Susanna's Quill Johnston, Julie 83349 EN MG 6.5 14.0 F 82471 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of the life of nineteenth-century author Susanna Moodie, following her travels in Canada and her struggles to become an author. The Swan Kingdom Marriott, Zoë 121695 EN MG+ 6.2 10.0 F 61580 N N - - - When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning woman, and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance. The Sweet Hereafter Banks, Russell 68451 EN UG 6.5 12.0 F 74189 N N - - - This story begins with a school bus accident and addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Sweetness at the Bottom of Bradley, Alan 136784 EN UG 6.6 16.0 F 95596 N N - - - Eleven-year-old Flavia loves chemistry the Pie puzzles and taking chances, so when a dead snipe is left at her kitchen door and a body is discovered in the garden, she is determined to get to the bottom of it. The Sword and the Circle Sutcliff, Rosemary 42792 EN UG 6.7 15.0 F 91782 N N - - - This book is a retelling of the adventures of King Arthur, Queen Guenever, Sir Lancelot, and other knights of the round table. The Syringa Tree: A Novel Gien, Pamela 113525 EN UG 6.4 14.0 F 85948 N N - - - Elizabeth, the privileged daughter of a part-Jewish doctor and his wife in South Africa in the 1960s, learns firsthand about the cruelties of apartheid when her beloved Xhosa nanny, Salamina, is forced to carry permission papers to enter white areas. Tabula Rasa Reuben, Shelly 106004 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 69925 N N - - - Billy Nightingale rescues a baby from a burned-out house where two children are found dead. But though Billy and his wife raise little Meredith without knowledge of her past, everything goes up in smoke when Meredith's biological mom returns. The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Albert, Susan Wittig 88924 EN UG 6.4 13.0 F 81726 N N - - - Author Beatrix Potter buys Hill Top Farm Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter in the Lake District of Near Sawrey in 1905, where she plans to recover from her fiancé's death and write children's books. However, she and her animal friends soon become caught up in the small town's mysteries. The Tale of Holly How Albert, Susan Wittig 103329 EN UG 6.6 13.0 F 81035 N N - - - Beatrix Potter joins with her four-legged friends in solving the mystery of who killed local shepherd Ben Hornby and finding the heartless humans who broke up a badger family.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Tales from Outer Suburbia Tan, Shaun 128372 EN MG+ 6.5 1.0 F 7982 N N - - - This book provides fifteen illustrated short stories, including some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs. Tender Morsels Lanagan, Margo 125532 EN UG 6.1 21.0 F 130120 N N - - - Lida, who has endured unspeakable cruelties, is magically granted safety in an alternate reality apart from the real world. This dark and vivid story for the mature reader contains sexually explicit material, profanity, and adult themes. The Terrible Axe-Man of New Geary, Rick 138499 EN MG+ 6.1 1.0 F 5312 N N - - - Grocers are being murdered in the dead Orleans of night by someone grabbing their axes and hacking them right in their own beds. The man is never found for sure, but speculations abound. The text contains graphic descriptions of violence. Theo Harrison, Barbara 34748 EN UG 6.7 5.0 F 27603 N N - - - A young puppeteer performs bravely on and off the stage after joining the Greek resistance movement during World Wart II. Theodore Roosevelt: Letters from a Armstrong, Jennifer 56494 EN MG 6.0 2.0 F 14270 N N - - - In this story, thirteen-year-old Frank Young Coal Miner Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901. They Dance in the Sky: Native Monroe, Jean Guard 115469 EN MG 6.4 5.0 F 31072 N N - - - This collection of legends about the American Star Myths stars from various North American Indian cultures includes explanations of the Milky Way and constellations such as the Big Dipper. The coauthor is Ray A. Williamson. The Thief Turner, Megan 15792 EN MG+ 6.0 11.0 F 68519 N N - N N Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and Whalen relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 79634 EN UG 6.2 8.0 F 50380 N N - - - Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, this novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways. Things Left Unsaid Hemphill, Stephanie 87158 EN MG+ 6.2 4.0 F 22728 N N - - - After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. The story is told in free-verse poems.

Thinner Bachman, Richard 18949 EN UG 6.0 15.0 F 94414 N N - - - Billy sideswipes an old Gypsy woman, and her aging father puts a curse on him. Third Watch: Acorna's Children McCaffrey, Anne 136619 EN UG 6.8 13.0 F 77405 N N - - - Acorna's long-lost daughter, Khorii, and her twin, Ariin, travel through time in order to locate the source of the plague that is destroying their civilization. The coauthor is Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Thirteen Orphans Lindskold, Jane 134811 EN UG 6.7 24.0 F 144256 N N - - - The Thirteen Orphans, who represent the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac plus the Cat, return to Earth, where they must use their magical abilities to defend themselves and their loved ones from unseen enemies. Thirteenth Child Wrede, Patricia C. 129882 EN MG+ 6.0 14.0 F 86615 N N - - - Eighteen-year-old Eff must accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten the western frontier. Book #1 A Thousand Acres Smiley, Jane 10850 EN UG 6.0 20.0 F 127417 N N - - - Hidden family secrets erupt when a father decides to leave his prosperous farm to two of his three daughters.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Throat Culture Golden, Christopher 86560 EN UG 6.4 10.0 F 60290 N N - - - A mysterious illness begins to sweep Jenna's college campus, leaving two students dead. Doctors suspect that this is no ordinary virus. Highly unusual and destructive, it could only be the work of human hands. The coauthor is Rick Hautala. Throwaway Daughter Ye, Ting-xing 69287 EN UG 6.0 9.0 F 55950 N N - - - Grace Dong-mei Parker is a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. While exploring her Chinese ancestry, she discovers that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China. Thunderhead Preston, Douglas J. 66566 EN UG 6.1 23.0 F 142679 N N - - - Nora Kelly is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his discovery, Nora begins to unravel one of archaeology's greatest mysteries. The coauthor is Lincoln Child. Time and Again Finney, Jack 68838 EN UG 6.8 26.0 F 153193 N N - - - Illustrator Si Morley steps out of his twentieth-century New York apartment one night--right into the winter of 1882. The Tinderbox Brandis, Marianne 45286 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 41732 N N - - - Emma Anderson is 13 and along with younger brother, recently orphaned. When a scarcely known aunt arrives from the city, Emma must face the prospect of an unfamiliar and frightening new life. To Ride the Gods' Own Stallion Wilson, Diane Lee 45156 EN MG 6.1 9.0 F 55463 N N - - - After being taken as a slave to Nineveh, thirteen-year-old Soulai finds his life intertwined with that of the son of King Ashurbanipal and a magnificent stallion, and gets a chance to prove to himself and others that he is not a coward. Tomorrow, When the War Began Marsden, John 14779 EN UG 6.3 13.0 F 78938 N N - - - Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. Book #1

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Torn Thread Isaacs, Anne 46725 EN UG 6.3 7.0 F 44744 N N - - N In an attempt to save his daughters' lives, their father sends the sisters from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia, where they may survive the war. Tough Boy Sonatas Crisler, Curtis L. 113345 EN UG 6.5 2.0 F 10061 N N - - - This book is a collection of poems that explores the struggles and joys of poor African-American boys in Gary, Indiana, reflecting the difficult circumstances they face. The text contains profanity, sexual situations, violence, and drug abuse. Trading in Danger Moon, Elizabeth 76694 EN UG 6.1 18.0 F 113260 N N - - - After Kylara Vatta is expelled from the military, she returns home to face her family's disgrace and join the family business as captain of a transport ship, but a simple assignment soon turns into a risky venture that threatens her family's business. Transcendent Baxter, Stephen 108721 EN UG 6.4 29.0 F 178915 N N - - - In the distant future, Alia is entrusted to Witness the life of Michael Poole, a man haunted by his wife's death and struggling to reconnect with his estranged son while fighting off a global disaster. Book #3 The Transformation Newth, Mette 42983 EN UG 6.7 7.0 F 40682 N N - - - On a journey to appease the Sea's Mother, Navarana saves the life of one of the strangers who had come to Greenland to rescue the few Christians living there, and together they find a way to end the suffering of Navarana's people. The Trap Smelcer, John 109094 EN MG 6.2 5.0 F 31092 N N - - N In alternating chapters, seventeen-year- old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Shulevitz, Uri 105999 EN MG 6.0 1.0 F 7823 N N - - - This book is a fictionalized account of Through Three Continents in the the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man Twelfth Century from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Jerusalem, Persia, Egypt, and Sicily. Treasure at the Heart of the Pierce, Meredith Ann 50421 EN UG 6.1 9.0 F 58660 N N - - - Hannah, a healer with unusual powers, Tanglewood leaves the wizard she has always served and, along with her animal companions, begins a journey which uncovers the truth about her real nature. Trembling Earth Siegelson, Kim L. 78962 EN MG 6.1 6.0 F 39032 N N - - - In 1864, two boys, one trying to find his sister and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Together, they discover that things are not as black and white as they seem to be. The Trial Bryant, Jennifer 76147 EN MG 6.1 2.0 F 15280 N N - - N Living in Fleming, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. Trial by Journal Klise, Kate 50398 EN MG 6.0 7.0 F 46548 N N - - - Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case. Tristan and Iseult Sutcliff, Rosemary 77711 EN MG+ 6.2 6.0 F 36018 N N - - - This book retells the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior, Tristan, and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Engle, Margarita 130906 EN MG+ 6.1 2.0 F 10182 N N - - - Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in Refugees in Cuba 1939, a young Jewish refugee, who dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description True History of the Kelly Gang Carey, Peter 49826 EN UG 6.9 22.0 F 130222 N N - - - This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and murderer, to most Australians, he was a patriot. Truesight Stahler Jr., David 77119 EN MG+ 6.0 8.0 F 50772 N N - - - Thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue. Book #1 Tunneling Bosworth, Beth 82294 EN UG 6.9 16.0 F 92531 N N - - - Twelve-year-old Rachel Finch is in love with libraries, books, and a time- traveling superhero she knows only as S -Man, and soon finds herself taking clandestine excursions through time to help S-Man rescue some of history's greatest literary geniuses. Tunneling to the Center of the Wilson, Kevin 136785 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 62381 N N - - - This collection of short stories features Earth offbeat characters written by American writer Kevin Wilson. Titles include GRAND STAND-IN, BLOWING UP ON THE SPOT, THE DEAD SISTER HANDBOOK, and others. The plots contain profanity and sexual situations. The Turtle Warrior Ellis, Mary Relindes 85251 EN UG 6.0 18.0 F 113723 N N - - - In 1960's Wisconsin, Bill Lucas survives an abusive father, his brother's death in Vietnam, and his own problems with alcohol. Twilight Child Warner, Sally 106289 EN MG 6.2 8.0 F 51520 N N - - - Taken from eighteenth-century Finland by her father, teenager Eleni eventually finds a home in Scotland, receiving help along the way from brounies, fairies, and other creatures she has the ability to see and talk with. The Underdogs Azuela, Mariano 21586 EN UG 6.0 6.0 F 36853 N N - - - The story of Demetrio Macias, a modest, peace-loving Indian who is forced to side with the rebels to save his family.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Unvisibles Whybrow, Ian 105565 EN MG 6.1 7.0 F 44254 N N - - N After twelve-year-old Oliver recites an ancient Indian magical spell and becomes invisible, he enlists the aid of his classmate Nicky, and the two of them join forces to undo the damage as well as to help their families and themselves. Valley of the Moon: The Diary of Garland, Sherry 50168 EN MG 6.2 6.0 F 34801 N N - - N This is the diary of Maria Rosalia, known Maria Rosalia de Milagros as Rosalia, servant to the wealthy Spanish family who took her in when her Indian mother died. The Vile Village Snicket, Lemony 48687 EN MG 6.7 7.0 F 39357 N N - - N Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results. Book #7 Vinegar Hill Ansay, A. Manette 34773 EN UG 6.1 11.0 F 66176 N N - - - When Ellen Grier's husband loses his job, their family is forced to move in with his parents. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this house that threaten to crush Ellen's passionate spirit. The Virginian Wister, Owen 723 EN UG 6.3 21.0 F 127671 N N - N N With its original publication in 1902, this novel introduced the cowboy hero to the public. It has become an idealized image that has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. Voices of the Trojan War Hovey, Kate 80307 EN MG 6.1 1.0 F 9224 N N - - - This collection of poems gives voice to the ancient Greeks and Trojans who fought the Trojan war, a ten-year battle that ended when Greek warriors gained entrance to the city in a large wooden horse.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Voyage of Patience Frederick, Heather 60654 EN MG 6.7 7.0 F 42565 N N - - N Following their mother's death in Goodspeed Vogel Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year- old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny, and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use. The Voyage of the Arctic Tern Montgomery, Hugh 59716 EN UG 6.7 5.0 F 28608 N N - - N This is a tale of treason, treachery, and treasure that sweeps across many centuries and different lands. At its heart is the ship's skipper, cursed to a life of eternal wandering for a moment of greed and betrayal. Waiting for Teddy Williams Mosher, Howard 85255 EN UG 6.0 13.0 F 82775 N N - - - A boy raised in a remote village in Frank Vermont by his honky-tonk mother and crippled grandmother shares the town's obsession with baseball and the Boston Red Sox, and with the coaching of Teddy Williams. Waiting for the Barbarians Coetzee, J.M. 76260 EN UG 6.5 11.0 F 65462 N N - - - For decades, the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, but a quixotic act of rebellion lands him in jail, branded an enemy of the state. Wakefield Codrescu, Andrei 86768 EN UG 6.9 15.0 F 90059 N N - - - The Devil gives Wakefield, a travel writer and motivational speaker, one year to find the true meaning of life. The Warlord's Son Fesperman, Dan 88712 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 118251 N N - - - American war correspondent Skelly gets an assignment to cover the war in Afghanistan after September 11 and links up with Najeeb Ajam, an unwilling informer for the Pakistani secret police, and soon they are drawn into a vortex of intrigue.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Warrior Fallon, Jennifer 111928 EN UG 6.4 32.0 F 197495 N N - - - The High Arrion of the Sorcerers' Collective plots to destroy Marla Wolfblade, the power behind Hythria's throne, and preys on Marla's confidant and ally, Elezaar the Fool, to help complete her evil plan. Book #2 Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits McKinley, Robin 59985 EN MG+ 6.9 14.0 F 80873 N N - - - This book contains a collection of short stories of fabulous creatures associated with the element of water. The coauthor is Peter Dickinson. Well Witched Hardinge, Frances 123099 EN MG 6.2 13.0 F 79244 N N - - - Three friends fall prey to the demands of the Well Witch when they trespass in her wishing well and steal some coins. Whale Talk Crutcher, Chris 49654 EN UG 6.1 10.0 F 63247 N N - - N An intellectually and athletically gifted multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. What Have You Lost? Nye, Naomi Shihab 36569 EN UG 6.1 3.0 F 18293 N N - - - This is a collection of poems that explores all kinds of loss. What Looks Like Crazy on an Cleage, Pearl 25938 EN UG 6.0 12.0 F 76485 N N - - - After a decade of elegant pleasures and Ordinary Day living among Atlanta's Elite, Ava returns home to find that her sleepy little home town has changed. What the Dead Know: A Novel Lippman, Laura 115314 EN UG 6.5 18.0 F 106394 N N - - - Detective Infante becomes caught up in investigating a long-ago crime when a woman arrested for a rush-hour accident tells police she is the younger of the two sisters who went missing from a local mall thirty years earlier. What Was Lost O'Flynn, Catherine 129060 EN UG 6.7 11.0 F 66470 N N - - - Lisa teams up with security guard Kurt to investigate sightings of a little girl clutching a toy monkey that have begun to appear on security tapes, which Lisa believes are links to the disappearance of ten-year-old Kate Meaney twenty years earlier.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Meyer, Carolyn 8549 EN MG+ 6.1 7.0 F 45346 N N - - N Historical novel about a white settler girl who was captured in an Indian raid and grew up with the Comanche tribe. Where We Are, What We See: The Levithan, David 101860 EN UG 6.2 8.0 F 52005 N N - - - Edited by David Levithan, this collection Best Young Writers and Artists in of short stories, poems, and artwork by America young writers and artists was culled from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards from 2002-2004. The Whispering Mountain Aiken, Joan 23354 EN MG 6.8 12.0 F 72898 N N - - - In the small town of Pennygaff, where Owen has been sent to live after his mother's death, a golden harp has been found. Owen must prevent the magic harp from falling into the evil clutches of its reputed owner, the sinister Lord Mayln. White Death Cussler, Clive 77451 EN UG 6.3 19.0 F 115769 N N - - - Kurt Austin is called in to stop a multinational corporation that is trying to gain control of the seas and killing anyone who tries to stop it. The coauthor is Paul Kemprecos. The White Mountains Christopher, John 397 EN MG 6.2 7.0 F 44763 N N - - N Giant Tripods control men's minds and rule the future world. White Teeth Smith, Zadie 67005 EN UG 6.9 29.0 F 169389 N N - - - Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London. Who Will Tell My Brother? Carvell, Marlene 60425 EN UG 6.6 2.0 F 14124 N N - - N Evan is a typical high-school student who suffers the same worries and anxieties as his peers - and then some. Determined to persuade high-school officials to remove offensive Indian mascots, he assumes a struggle that spirals into self-exploration. Who's Irish? Stories Jen, Gish 70919 EN UG 6.2 10.0 F 64760 N N - - - This is a collection of eight stories in which the author chronicles the lives of Chinese and other Americans in search of the American dream.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Wide Window Snicket, Lemony 41287 EN MG 6.3 5.0 F 31699 N N - - N Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they are sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery. Book #3 Wild Timothy Blackwood, Gary L. 64608 EN MG 6.3 6.0 F 37137 N N - - N Thirteen-year-old Timothy, more interested in reading than in physical activity, reluctantly accompanies his enthusiastic father on a camping trip and when he accidentally becomes lost in the woods, discovers that he is capable of surviving on his own. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Coville, Bruce 32710 EN MG 6.7 1.0 F 3851 N N - - - Simplified prose retells Shakespeare's Juliet play about two young people who defy their warring families' prejudices and dare to fall in love. Winter's Bone: A Novel Woodrell, Daniel 108428 EN UG 6.0 7.0 F 45883 N N - - - Part of a large family, sixteen-year-old Ree has grown up in the poverty of the Ozarks. On a cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers as well as her mother, learns that her father has skipped bail and now they could lose their house. Wintering Durbin, William 31568 EN UG 6.1 7.0 F 42099 N N - - - In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns both from the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share. Witch Child Rees, Celia 52028 EN UG 6.0 9.0 F 53398 N N - - N In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Witch's Boy Gruber, Michael 86749 EN MG+ 6.4 12.0 F 74409 N N - - - A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him. When he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, he eventually finds his true heart's desire. A Wizard of Earthsea Le Guin, Ursula K. 5100 EN UG 6.7 9.0 F 56533 N N - - N A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the master wizard. Book #1 Wolfcry Atwater-Rhodes, 109219 EN MG+ 6.0 8.0 F 52767 N N - - - Knowing that she must soon choose a Amelia mate, twenty-year-old Oliza, heir to the Wyvern throne that unites the avian and serpiente peoples, weighs the political ramifications of her choice while also longing to follow her heart. Book #4 The Wolves of Woden Baird, Alison 63938 EN MG 6.5 16.0 F 97276 N N - - - Whenever her anxieties about the war get the best of her, Jean finds herself re- entering the hidden world she has discovered. With every visit, she becomes more involved in the intrigues of Annwn, and before long has joined Princess Gwenlian's quest. The Woman I Kept to Myself: Alvarez, Julia 85747 EN UG 6.7 3.0 F 17189 N N - - - This collection of seventy-five poems Poems provides a narrative of a woman's inner life as she looks back from the perspective of middle age. The Word for Home Clark, Joan 63939 EN MG 6.5 13.0 F 80992 N N - - - It is 1924. Sadie and her little sister, Flora, are struggling with the challenges of a new school, a new town, and a life without their parents. A Wreath for Emmett Till Nelson, Marilyn 104613 EN UG 6.3 0.5 F 2185 N N - - - This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American youth who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description The Xenocide Mission Jeapes, Ben 63184 EN UG 6.3 15.0 F 90933 N N - - - Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is part of a multi -species space observation team stationed in a distant solar system who find themselves attacked by the very aliens they are supposed to be watching. The Yokota Officers Club Bird, Sarah 69033 EN UG 6.0 19.0 F 117523 N N - - - Air Force brat Bernadette "Bernie" Root embarks on a tour of Japanese military bases in 1968 in search of answers about the source of the problems that are tearing her parents' marriage apart and destroying the rest of her family. You Are Here Smith, Jennifer E. 131315 EN UG 6.7 11.0 F 65601 N N - - - Sixteen-year-old Emma Healy has never felt that she fit in with the rest of her family, so when she discovers she had a twin brother who died shortly after they were born, she takes off on an impulsive road trip to try to discover who she really is. You Don't Know Me Klass, David 46861 EN UG 6.4 11.0 F 69431 N N - - N Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful but shallow classmate, and other problems at school. Young Samurai: The Way of the Bradford, Chris 136106 EN MG+ 6.7 13.0 F 78986 N N - - - In Japan in 1611, English orphan Jack Sword Fletcher continues his difficult training at Niten Ichi Ryu Samurai School while trying to protect his father's rutter, the navigation guide of the world's uncharted oceans, from Dragon Eye. Book #2 Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait Hemphill, Stephanie 114100 EN UG 6.4 5.0 F 28458 N N - - - On a bleak February day in 1963, a of Sylvia Plath young American poet died by her own hand and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath, and this book is a portrait of her life told in poems.

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Quiz Word Title Author Number Lang IL BL Pts F/NF Count Book RP RV LS VP Description Zoo Marks, Graham 104844 EN UG 6.1 11.0 F 65299 N N - - - After seventeen-year-old Cam Stewart escapes from the kidnappers who took him from right in front of his San Diego home, he continues a dangerous adventure that includes finding a mysterious chip in his arm that leads him to question his identity.

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