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Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . .
...4) Edge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Zachary, living with his divorced mother in California, finds violence gradually invading his life and making significant changes in his day-to-day existence.
6) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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970L
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English
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White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them. A constitution of iron and the vitality of the Wild were White Fang's inheritance, and he clung to life, the whole of him and every part of him, in spirit and in flesh, with the tenacity that of old belonged to all creatures.
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