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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 58
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of George Washington from the time he steps down from the presidency to return with Martha to his beloved Mount Vernon home, a period during which the couple shares a renewal of feelings from the early years of their marriage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order-rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant-and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law; his restless, sensual wife; and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the true ordeal of Mary Ingles."--Cover.
After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.
8) Unveiled
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Lineage of grace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Jesus chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Here is a thrilling account of the life of the Man who came to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament and to save all of humankind, and of the disciple who was the last eyewitness to Jesus' glory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition. This mighty epic is a fitting tribute to the wisdom and courage of Ann Rogers Clark, her...
12) Sarah
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Presents a novel based on the life of the Old Testament character Sarah, the daughter of a powerful lord who employs drastic measures in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage and whose actions lead her to give up her exalted life to join Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe and follower of the one true God.
13) Long Knife
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Description
Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Rogers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virginia to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He battled the British, forged friendships with French and Spanish settlers, and made treaties with many Indian tribes who revered him and called him Long Knife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
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Christ the Lord volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven. Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of...
16) Heart of a lion
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Lions of Judah volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Noah struggles to resist the siren call of the world's pleasures while straining to hear the voice of his father's God.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
18) Alias Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Now serving a life sentence, she claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr. Jordan tries to help her remember, he hears of the turbulent relationships in the Kinnear household and the alarming behavior of a fellow servant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. More follow.
20) The black rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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Description
A fictional biography chronicles the story of Madame C.J. Walker, who rose from the poverty of her former slave parents to found a marketing empire that made her America's first Black female millionaire.
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