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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau...
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"Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth versus power, and the triumph of hope in the face of despair. "Fans of Delia Owens will swoon to find their new favorite author." (Hank Phillippi Ryan) It's been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind-find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper,...
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"It is the year 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie of the species "only a mother could love" - scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed in a grim but pointed way, and most of the major mammalian species - not to mention fish, birds and frogs - are extinct." "At one time,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.
9) The extincts
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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In order to raise money for a new bicycle, George takes a job at Wormestall Farm, where he encounters creatures supposedly extinct or mythological, a new--female--friend, and a maniacal taxidermist who wants the animals for her own private collection.
10) Me want pet!
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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When Cave Boy wants a pet, he tries a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, and a dodo bird, but none seems suitable.
11) How to bee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.
Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.' Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest,...
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 36
Pub. Date
[2023]
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In this 36th volume in the series, "the Thea Sisters are going to New Zealand. Their new friend Charlotte wants to show them the sights and introduce them to Didi, a skeleton of a bird that went extinct many years ago. But when they get to the mouseum, Didi has gone missing. Can they find the stolen skeleton before it is too late?"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Hello, Mr. Dodo!
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Martha loves birds, so one day when she meets and makes friends with a Dodo, a species supposed to be extinct, in the woods behind her house, she resolves to keep him secret to keep him safe--but sometimes it is hard to keep a big secret.
14) Alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
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Vincent Rubio mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
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While investigating a two-bit case of arson, a down-on-his-luck private investigator, who happens to be a dinosaur, uncovers a dangerous nexus of dinosaur and human intermingling.
17) Music for tigers
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Pub. Date
04/28/2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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A young violinist discovers her mother's family secretly harbor a sanctuary for extinct Tasmanian tigers in the remote Australian rainforest.
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Series
Extincts volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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Meet Scratch, Martie, Lug, and Quito, members of a secret organization called R.O.A.R., or the Rescue Ops Acquisition Rangers. When their boss, Dr. Z, finally calls on them for their first big mission, the team heads to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost. Scratch is thrilled at the chance to prove his worth to Dr. Z--but as soon as they land, the team runs into a mysterious enemy determined to take them down.
19) The hunter
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...
20) The hunter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...