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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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"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...
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Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no on, not even Theo Boone--who knows April better than anyone--has answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to use his legal knowledge and investigate skills to chase down the truth and save April.
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Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and...
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English
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by hiw own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. As the weeks...
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