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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Posted on July 10, 2014 by webmaster

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ranson Riggs

As a kid, Jacob formed a special bond with his grandfather over his bizarre tales and photos of levitating girls and invisible boys. Now at 16, he is reeling from the old man's unexpected death. Then Jacob is given a mysterious letter that propels him on a journey to the remote Welsh island where his grandfather grew up. There, he finds the children from the photographs--alive and well--despite the islanders’ assertion that all were killed decades ago. As Jacob begins to unravel more about his grandfather’s childhood, he suspects he is being trailed by a monster only he can see.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
890L	Middle School	382	Supense	2014	1594746036

The Limit

Posted on June 17, 2014 by webmaster

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The Limit
by Kriten Landon

With personal debt out of control, the federal government monitors spending and forces families who exceed their limit to undergo stringent measures to correct the problem. One option is for their teenage children to be sent to a workhouse where they can earn money to help reduce the family debt. Matt, a math and computer whiz, is not concerned for himself because his parents are smart enough and rich enough to play by the rule. But the unthinkable happens and, despite the fact that he is only in eighth grade, he is whisked off to a facility. His considerable intelligence and skills make him a “Top Floor”; he lives in luxury and is given intellectually stimulating work. Still, Matt realizes he is in a prison, and, with his hacker skills and the help of other Top Floors, determines to discover the truth.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Middle School	304	Fantasy	2011	1442402725

Presbyterian Day School

Posted on June 13, 2014 by webmaster

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Presbyterian Day School Newbie Entries

4A Liberation of Gabriel King from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is one of several that Presbyterian Day School sent us on Liberation of Gabriel King (4A). They understand the concept of re-enacting versus simply ‘talking about the story”
4B Liberation of Gabriel King from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is a second version of several that Presbyterian Day School sent us. They understand the concept of re-enacting versus simply ‘talking about the story”
4C Liberation of Gabriel King from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the third version
4D Liberation of Gabriel King from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the fourth version.. well done!
4A Jackie and Me from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is one of four on Jackie Robinson that they sent us
4B Jackie and Me from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the second version
4C Jackie and Me from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This the third version
4D Jackie and Me from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the fourth.. all different and all very well done.. Thank you Presbyterian Day School for sharing with us.
4A Long Way from Chicago from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is one of four for the book, A Long Way From Chicago.. again, each of these videos are all different and all very well done..
4B Long Way from Chicago from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is number two…
A Long Way From Chicago 4-C from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the third….
4D Long Way from Chicago from Presbyterian Day School on Vimeo	This is the fourth….

Bittersweet

Posted on June 4, 2014 by webmaster

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Bittersweet
by Sarah Ockler

Three years have passed since Hudson Avery’s parents divorced and her dream of skating professionally disappeared as quickly as her father’s exit to the southwest. Now she’s living in the snow-ravaged, dead-end town of Watonka, NY, and baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner. As she enters her senior year of high school, the teenager’s desire to skate again resurfaces with the announcement of a cash prize competition and a strange twist of events that lead her to coach the varsity hockey team in exchange for ice time. As she becomes more involved with the team, the two co-captains vie for Hudson’s attention and she has to choose between the charismatic and charming Will and the sweet and sensitive Josh. Hudson has a lot of decisions to make, and making one often leads to a bittersweet ending and another opportunity.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
840L	High School	400	Romance	2012	1442430362

Cask of Amontillado

Posted on March 27, 2014 by webmaster

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The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allen Poe

The story’s unreliable narrator, Montresor, tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow nobleman, to an unspecified person who knows him very well. Angry over some unspecified insult, he plots to murder his friend during Carnival when the man is drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jester’s motley.

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He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained what he believes to be a pipe of a rare vintage of Amontillado. He claims he wants his friend’s expert opinion on the subject. Fortunato goes with Montresor to the wine cellars of the latter’s palazzo, where they wander in the catacombs. At one point, Fortunato makes an elaborate, grotesque gesture with an upraised wine bottle. When Montresor appears not to recognize the gesture, Fortunato asks, “You are not of the masons?” Montresor says he is, and when Fortunato, disbelieving, requests a sign, Montresor displays a trowel he had been hiding. When they come to a niche, Montresor tells his victim that the Amontillado is within. Fortunato enters and, drunk and unsuspecting, does not resist as Montresor quickly chains him to the wall. Montresor then declares that, since Fortunato won’t go back, he must “positively leave”.

Montresor walls up the niche, entombing his friend alive. At first, Fortunato, who sobers up faster than Montresor anticipated he would, shakes the chains, trying to escape. Fortunato then screams for help, but Montresor mocks his cries, knowing nobody can hear them. Fortunato laughs weakly and tries to pretend that he is the subject of a joke and that people will be waiting for him (including the Lady Fortunato).

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
700L	High School	26	Thriller	2014	1496175085

Keene High School

Posted on February 8, 2014 by webmaster

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Keene High School Newbie Entries

Book Thief

The Giving Tree

1984

Lock and Key

The Hunger Games

Red Sky at Morning

Omnivores Dilema

Entangled

Posted on February 3, 2014 by webmaster

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Entangled
by Amy Rose Capetta

Cade lives in a world where humans are second-class citizens. Without a home planet, and unable to stop from falling into a detached sensory limbo called “spacesick,” people are at the mercy of the galaxy’s many other intelligent alien races. The teen protagonist is a tough loner, making a living on the fringes of a desert economy by playing club sets on her guitar. Her music is also the only thing that helps with the static in her head.

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She is unprepared for the day that the Noise finally quiets, and a mysterious holographic scientist reveals that she is an experiment, and has become entangled-or inexorably intertwined at the particle level-with a boy named Xan, who is in danger halfway across the known universe. Cade sets out on a quest to find him and makes a few friends along the way.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	High School	336	Science Fiction	2013	0544087445

Evermore

Posted on January 31, 2014 by webmaster

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Evermore: The Immortals
by Alyson Noël

After a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people’s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone’s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.

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Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He’s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it’s as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she’s left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she’s falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
940L	High School	320	Fantasy	2009	031253275X

Chasing Brooklyn

Posted on January 30, 2014 by webmaster

Chasing Brooklyn
by Lisa Schroeder

Brooklyn can’t sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe’s ghost is there waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn’t Lucca visiting her dreams.

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Nico can’t stop. He’s always running, trying to escape the pain of losing his brother, Lucca. But when Lucca’s ghost begins leaving messages, telling Nico to help Brooklyn, emotions come crashing to the surface.

As the nightmares escalate and the messages become relentless, Nico reaches out to Brooklyn. But neither of them can admit that they’re being haunted. Until they learn to let each other in, not one soul will be able to rest.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
510L	High School	432	Fantasy	2011	0765368552

In a Fix

Posted on January 30, 2014 by webmaster

In a Fix
by Linda Grimes

nagging a marriage proposal for her client while on an all-expenses-paid vacation should be a simple job for Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire. A kind of human chameleon, she’s able to take on her clients’ appearances and slip seamlessly into their lives, solving any sticky problems they don’t want to deal with themselves. No fuss, no muss. Big paycheck.

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This particular assignment is pretty enjoyable…that is, until Ciel’s island resort bungalow is blown to smithereens and her client’s about-to-be-fiancé is snatched by modern-day Vikings. For some reason, Ciel begins to suspect that getting the ring is going to be a tad more difficult than originally anticipated.

Going from romance to rescue requires some serious gear-shifting, as well as a little backup. Her best friend, Billy, and Mark, the CIA agent she’s been crushing on for years—both skilled adaptors—step in to help, but their priority is, annoyingly, keeping her safe. Before long, Ciel is dedicating more energy to escaping their watchful eyes than she is to saving her client’s intended.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	High School	384	Fantasy	2013	0765368552

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