Andres Esparza
1) BMX blitz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Three talented teenagers are competing in a BMX competition whose course has been kept a secret before the race, but one of them seems to be able to anticipate the course better than the other competitors.
3) Hoop rat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Trey, the Spartans' team captain, becomes fast friends with Griffin, the newest member of their squad. The problem is, Griff used to play for the Spartans' biggest rivals, the Goliaths, and the rest of the Spartans think he's a rat. Trey doesn't know what to do. His teammates want him to betray his friendship with Griff to save their season-- but if they're wrong about Griff, then Trey will end up being the rat"--Unedited summary from book.
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Davis Miller is a puny, little mouse at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. At least that's what the other students call the 4' 7" senior. After years of being depressed, the sickly teen decides to take on an impossible dream. He decides to become a boxer. Then one day in 1975, Miller gets a chance to spar with Muhammad Ali, a bout that will change his life.
5) Vault
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When the moon-bound crew of Gaia stumbles across an enormous alien vessel, more technologically advanced than their own, priorities change. The mystery deepens when the crew discovers the name of the vessel along the hull... written in English: VAULT.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Rich kid Tony Jay is a shoe-in to win the Silver Falls snowboarding tournament, but his biggest competition, Jack Hewlitt, can't afford to enter. Tony may be spoiled, but he knows that victory means nothing if you don't beat the best. So, he agrees to hold a one-on-one freestyle run with Jack atop the Silver Falls Mountains. But just when things start to heat up, a massive avalanche threatens to put both boys on ice, turning their friendly competition...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chester Coyote is a very talented paintball player. Unfortunately, he would rather be a lone wolf than run with the pack. His team, the Wolves, is in the state paintball finals, but he isn't seeing eye-to-eye with his best friend, Cora Ramirez, the Wolves' team captain. Chester won't follow her orders, and his class-clown personality is turning the rest of the Wolves against him. If Chester doesn't decide to play well with others, he'll lose his friends...
8) Hell
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Is it one of those assemble-the-team deals? YOU BET! The scientist. The murderer. The mercs. The witch. And the half-human visitor from the Underneath. The mission: Recover the most amazing mineral power source ever discovered. The target: Miles beneath the Earth's crust, teeming with monster denizens we haven't seen in centuries. It's a one-way trip straight to HELL.
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Perry the Playmaker has always been the Tigers' go-to guy -- until super-tall and ultra-talented Jason joins the team. Feeding the ball to Jason in the post is a guaranteed two points, but Perry refuses to play nice. Instead, he hogs the ball and takes bad shots, ruining the team's rhythm. Will Perry's selfishness spoil the Tigers' run at the state championship, or will the two talented teens team up to slam dunk the competition?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Tiger Moth, Insect Ninja, is suddenly at the mercy of another student . . . . Beatrice, the Queen Bee of Antennae Elementary School. Tiger thinks she's the bee's knees and obeys her every command (no matter how wicked). In fact, this killer bee has turned the entire school into a bumbling swarm of Zom-bees! To stop Beatrice and her drones, Tiger Moth's apprentice, Kung Pow, must first defeat his own master.
11) The Standoff
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At Tattersall Prison, a max-lock for the baddest of the bad, sleepless nights are the norm... until a fireball from the sky turns the night shift into a nightmare - trapping guards and cons on the inside, cops on the outside, and escapees in-between... all of them threatened by a hideous alien invader which needs nice, warm human bodies in which to incubate. From the outside, it looks like a replay of Waco, but from the inside, it's more like Dante's...
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Track season is about to begin, and Gerald "Sully" Sullivan is ready and raring to run. But on the first day of tryouts, no other students show up! If the Titans don't get more members, there won't be a track team. So Sully pays a visit to the other sports teams, hoping their star athletes will join. None of the other athletes think much of track and field. Sully will have to beat them at their own sports to change their minds. . . .
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From the mind of John Carpenter, the man who brought you the classic horror film Halloween, and the heart of writer, editor, producer Sandy King, comes 14 new twisted tales of terror, tricks, and treats. In volume 8 of the award-winning graphic novel series, Carpenter and King bring together the best storytellers from comics, novels, and film for another spine-tingling collection of stories.