Linda Stephens
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of Scarlett O'Hara, her life, loves, and ultimate tragedy. Set against the background of the ante-bellum South, this novel chronicles the story of one family's destruction by the conflict between the states.
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter try to restore their bonds after the girl returns from boarding school.
Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood good-bye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance...
Author
Series
Swan house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Mary Swan Middleton has always taken her family's wealth for granted, but when her maid urges her to help those less fortunate, Mary meets Carl, a young man who has nothing in common with Mary, but who Mary finds herself drawn to.
5) Briar Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the German folktale Briar Rose, also known as Sleeping Beauty, set amid forests patrolled by the German army during World War II.