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Series
Arly Hanks mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Televangelist Malachi Hope is performing nightly miracles in Maggody, Arkansas, but his plan to build a Christian theme park in the small town plants seeds of greed in some hearts leading to the murder of one of the faithful and sending police chief Arly Hanks on a mission for truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
4) Sugar
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
20th Anniversary Edition—with a New Foreword by Kimberly Elise
A novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemporary fiction, praised by Ebony for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end.”
A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the...
A novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemporary fiction, praised by Ebony for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end.”
A young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the...
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Benni Harper is thrilled to be back in her hometown, but her joy soon fades after she realizes the town is in the middle of a heated battle over the merging of two church congregations.
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The peace and prosperity promised with the end of World War I fails to come to pass for two ex-soldiers--Arkansas farmer Birch Tucker, who faces the loss of everything he and his family have worked for; and Max Meyer, a financial columnist who may have to forfeit his wealth and influence to gain the son he never knew he had.
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A bad moon at the end of 1929 ushers in a year of changes and turmoil for the people of Shiloh, Arkansas, and faith is the only thing that keeps them going.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1935, after his family loses their farm and is forced to move onto an Arkansas plantation, sixth grader Talmadge struggles to endure their harsh new life and fights to stay in school against his mother's wishes.
10) Undead much
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Megan Berry learns the secret of why she is such a powerful Settler, gets help from a new friend in battling a siege from a zombie army, and tries to reach second base with her boyfriend, Ethan.
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