Jodi Picoult
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A New Hampshire girl effects miraculous cures, becoming the center of a controversy involving doctors, priests and the media. The divorced father who blames the mother sues for custody and the result is a trial, pitting believers against skeptics.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.
Author
Series
Ruth Jefferson volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...