Dan Green
2) The Elements
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Discovering the elements is discovering life itself. What are we made of? What keeps us and our universe in motion? Everything we are, and see around us, and create, is made up of a little over 90 elements, many of which have existed since the beginning of time and space. This book is more than a walk through the periodic table. It explains the tremendous forces of star birth and death that create elements. It chronicles the history of their discovery...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 860L
Language
English
Description
"The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body" has taught readers about the incredible systems that work together to make the human body function. With full-color photos and illustrations featuring Ms. Frizzle and her students, this nonfiction companion includes fresh, updated content.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
10) The games
Author
Series
Private novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Rio has spent years preparing to host the world during the Olympic games--but they didn't prepare for this ... Rio de Janeiro, Brazil--home to beautiful white-sand beaches, gorgeous women, stunning natural beauty, and the world's largest Carnival celebration--knows how to throw a party. So it's a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports--the World Cup and the Olympics. To ensure that the games go off without a hitch, the organizers...
11) The Murder House
Author
Language
English
Description
No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been...
12) Second honeymoon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
FBI agent John O'Hara and Special Agent Sarah Brubaker hunt an ingenious pair of serial killers whose victims all have one chilling thing in common--they're newlyweds.
13) Six of crows
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"--
14) Private L.A
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan can't get to the truth. But as...
15) NYPD red 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on...
16) Private Paris
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can locate her, several members of France's cultural elite are found dead--murdered in stunning, symbolic fashion....
17) Zoo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it is too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
MURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes, to the tune of $750,000. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives . . . MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS. Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically...
19) NYPD Red
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On the opening night of New York's biggest Hollywood event, special task force NYPD Red is on high alert — and they can't afford to make a single mistake.
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then...
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then...
20) New York 2140
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim...