Michael Crouch
41) Magonia
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Series
Magonia novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Aza Ray Boyle's life has been defined by a unique lung disease and her evolving friendship with Jason, but just before her sixteenth birthday, she is swept up into the sky-bound world of Magonia and discovers her true identity.
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Publisher Annotation: It?s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He?s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he?s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media?s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle...
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[2021]
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Things have quieted down for lovable troublemaker Rafe Khatchadorian, and after all the mishaps and adventures he's been through, he's feeling a little restless. So when he's invited to attend an all-expenses-paid art field trip in California, Rafe jumps at the opportunity. But things go sideways, as they always do for Rafe, when he arrives and realizes his trip isn't the Hollywood vacation he thought it would be. Instead, he'll be participating in...
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2016.
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"The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and...
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2024.
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now...
47) Dive smack
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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"Theo Mackey only remembers one thing for certain about the fire that destroyed his home: he lit the match. Sure, it was an accident. But the blaze killed his mom and set his dad on a path to self-destruction. Everything else about that fateful night is full of gaping holes in Theos mind, for good reason. Maybe its better that way. As captain of the Ellis Hollow Diving Team, with straight A's and solid friends, he's only one semester away from securing...
48) The last human
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
49) The change
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Series
Animorphs. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Tobias, trapped in animal form after morphing into a hawk, agrees to help save two Hork-Bajir from the evil Yeerks in exchange for his humanity.
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"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When they reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of the tragic...
52) Release: a novel
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn't he?) and his best friend, Angela. But all day long, old memories and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing...
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Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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"Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular Andy Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. After five years, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip...
54) Groundskeeping
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams"--
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Series
Twice upon a time volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck, conditions change for them both.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Evan Panos's strict immigrant Greek mother sees him as a disappointment. His workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend, Henry, has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer. His only escape is drawing, in an abandoned monastery that feels as lonely as he is. And Henry makes Evan believe that he deserves more than his mother's harsh words and terrifying abuse. As things escalate, Evan...
58) Slither, snake!
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Meet different kinds of snakes! Find out where they live and what they do. Through engaging text features, such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to vocabulary in concept groups--helping them make connections between words and expanding their understanding of the world.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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n the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two days later, Earl is being questioned by the police about Tina’s disappearance and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,...
60) The diversion
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Series
Animorphs. Main series volume 49
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Yeerks finally realize that the Andalite Bandits are not aliens, but humans. Now, Tobias and the other Animorphs must protect themselves.