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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. Louise resents her twin sister's beauty and accomplishments in this novel set in the Chesapeake Bay area.
3) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
4) Downtown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy's parents leave him behind when they become fugitives due to their antiwar protest bombings. Eight years later, his mother reappears and he must decide what direction his life must take.
7) Beanpole
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984, c1983
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lillian, miserable about being a "beanpole" and a loser, stops feeling sorry for herself when she learns the difference between a loser and a winner.
10) Bright shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Abyssinia Jackson must learn to cope with tragedy when peace is shattered in her Oklahoma countryside and her boyfriend Carl Lee disappears.
11) Taking sides
Author
Pub. Date
[1982] c1974
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nell adjusts to life with her father and five-year-old brother after her parents divorce.
12) Marked by fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Abby, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, learns the secrets of folk medicine from the healer Mother Barker as she grows up.
14) Two-timing Aisha
Author
Series
Making out volume 17
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Aisha cannot decide between her long-time boyfriend, Christopher, and the intelligent but irksome David.
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