Lois Duncan
1) Ransom
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When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know they'll be lucky to make it home alive. Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the new bus driver to the last stop of the day...but the strange substitute driver keeps driving....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventeen-year-old Laurie Stratton should be happy. She has beauty, health, a handsome boyfriend, and loving parents. But Laurie has begun to feel the presence of a double, a shadowy figure that hovers just out of her reach. It has appeared to Laurie's family and friends; it lingers in the shadows of Laurie's room. Is Laurie going crazy-or is someone, something, trying to take over her life? As Laurie begins to ask questions about her ancestry, she...
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A paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn--now a motion picture starring Uma Thurman and Anna Sophia Robb!
Kit Gordy sees Blackwood Hall towering over black iron gates, and she can't help thinking, This place is evil. The imposing mansion sends a shiver of fear through her. But Kit settles into a routine, trying to ignore the rumors that the highly exclusive boarding school is haunted.
Then her classmates begin to show extraordinary...
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From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself alienated from her own life. Julia seems to have enchanted everyone to turn against her, leaving Rachel on her own to try and prove that Julia is a witch. One thing about Julia is certain-she is not who she says she is, and Rachel's family is in grave danger.
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Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong. Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some anti-feminist time warp-they're faced with sexism at every turn, and they've had enough. Sponsored by their new art teacher, Ms. Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. It's more than a school club-it's a secret society, a sisterhood. At first, it seems like they are actually changing the way guys at school treat them. But Ms. Stark urges them to take more vindictive...
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An extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer's career, Written in the Stars is a collection of Lois Duncan's earliest stories. Composed from the ages of 13 through 22. From family relationships, to the joy and angst of first love, to the struggles of a young soldier returning from war with PTSD, this unique book, whose stories originally appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and American Girl, is a marvelous portrait of the depth and breadth...
8) Blackwood
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Si en Blackwood sólo hay cuatro alumnas, ¿de quiénes son las otras voces?
Cuando Kit Gordy ve Blackwood Hall despuntar sobre las puertas negras de hierro, no puede evitar pensar: "Este lugar es maligno". La imponente mansión le provoca un desasosiego que en los siguientes días no hace más que intensificarse. En especial cuando oye los rumores sobre el incendio que calcinó hace años esas mismas paredes.
Entonces sus compañeras de clase empiezan...
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Dan and Larry's hiking trip ends in a missing persons search. Can Joan find her brother before it's too late? When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don't come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows the mountains well. Larry is smart and resourceful. But soon the boys' families must accept the unthinkable, as little sign of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Mr. Griffin is the least-liked teacher at Del Norte High School. It's not just because he is the toughest grader in the school, or won't accept late work for any reason. He even fails seniors and makes them beg to get back in his class . the next year. This time, he's humiliated the wrong students. When a group of classmates decide to kidnap him, the plan is only to scare their English teacher-to make him grovel and give him a taste of his own medicine....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
13) The third eye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn.
14) A gift of magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read people's minds, know their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for good, or satisfy her own selfish desire?
Lois Duncan presents a paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn.
16) Gallows Hill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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On July 16, 1989, Lois Duncan's daughter was chased down and shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the police abandoned all leads, Duncan refused to give up her search for the truth. In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn's murder is inadequate when detectives...
18) Hotel for dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Andi and her brother wind up with nine stray dogs that need homes but must be kept a secret.
19) News for dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Andi is excited when the newspaper for dogs that she and her brother Bruce start becomes a big success, but when a group of dognappers appears on the scene, Andi and Bruce work to uncover the culprits and rescue the dogs.
20) Movie for dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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The hilarious sequel to HOTEL FOR DOGS (made into the hit movie!) and NEWS FOR DOGS! Andi and her canine friends are back for their biggest adventure yet -- Hollywood!
When Andi's brother Bruce wants to enter a dog-themed film-making contest, Andi jumps at the opportunity to become a screenwriter. But neither of them expects what happens next -- a producer wants their movie! Can Andi and Bruce's show (and dogs) go Hollywood?
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