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1) Penrod
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English
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Penrod tells of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the turn of the twentieth century. His friends and his dog accompany him on his many jaunts, from the stage as the Child Sir Lancelot, to the playground, to school. They make names for themselves as bad boys who always have the most fun.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Afraid Mamie will make good on her threat to send her to reform school, Starla starts walking to Nashville to find her momma, who went there when Starla was three. Out in the country, she accepts a ride from a black woman traveling with a white baby. And the trio embarks on a road trip that will change Starla's life forever.
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"In 1964, Paul Carpetti discovers Jack Kerouac's On the Road while on a school trip to New York and begins to question the life he faces after high school. Then he meets a volatile, charismatic Kerouac devotee determined to hit the road himself. When the boys learn that Kerouac is living in St. Petersburg, Florida, they go looking for answers."--[page 4]Cover.
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A series of stories about Cress Delehanty and how she grew her teen years--a sort of feminine Penrod. A sensitive romantic child, she goes through episodes that add to her understanding of herself and others and with her, we share them all. Cressy is a funny, intelligent, alive child.
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"From a distance, the Harlans appear to be the perfect Southern family. Wealth and local fame mask the drama and dysfunction swirling through their family line. But as the summer heats up, a flood tide of long hidden secrets surface. Devastation from a rape followed by the murder of two family members brings three generations of the Harlans together on their pecan plantation in Bay Spring, Alabama. Chief among them is Anniston, who by the time...
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Montgomery "Monty" Brewster counts his blessings when he inherits a million dollars from his late, rich grandfather. However, when his equally-wealthy uncle also dies, Brewster immediately inherits another seven million dollars. But there's a catch: Brewster will only receive his uncle's money if he spends all of his grandfather's money within one year.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
Elnora Comstock's first day at high school is a disaster. The other students laugh at her clothes, and then -- to make matters worse -- she learns she has to pay for her books and tuition. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]
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A young man grows up in Raintree County, Indiana and becomes a teacher and an outspoken abolitionist. He marries a southern belle just after the outbreak of the Civil War. Battling mental illness she flees to her Southern home ; he joins the Union Army so that he can push into Georgia and find his wife.
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Little Sister, the twelfth and youngest of the Stanton children, is not regarded at her birth as a particularly welcome addition to the family, but as the years pass she proves herself to be a blessing,especially when she is instrumental in bringing together her beloved brother Laddie and their neighbor, Pamela Pryor.
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This is the story of a middle-class family living in the industrialized "midland country" at the turn of the 20th century. It is against this dingy backdrop that Alice Adams seeks to distinguish herself. She goes to a dance in a used dress, which her mother attempts to renew by changing the lining and adding some lace. She adorns herself not with orchids sent by the florist but with a bouquet of violets she has picked herself. Because her family cannot...
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For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes...
15) Sister Carrie
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
980L
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English
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"The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and moves to New York, and when her husband loses his job, returns to the stage." ***"A powerful account of a young working girl's rise to the 'tinsel and shine' of worldly success, and of the slow decline of her lover and protector Hurstwood." Oxford Companion to Engl Lit. ***"Plain, unaffected, and unconventional story of the actual life of the lower middle-classes...
16) Kate Fennigate
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Pub. Date
1943.
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English
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Kate Fennigate was a manager, even as a young child; she influenced her mother, her schoolmates, and, particularly, her father. Because of her good manners, however, Kate was never offensive in her desire to lead. Her father, who had showed great promise as a lawyer when he was young, had permitted both women and liquor to interfere with his career. Mrs. Fennigate had no great interest in life except eating, and Mr. Fennigate had no great interest...
17) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
20) Intensely Alice
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Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 21
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
During the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, Maryland teenager Alice McKinley volunteers at a local soup kitchen, tries to do "something wild" without getting arrested, and wonders if her trip to Chicago to visit boyfriend Patrick will result in a sleepover.
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