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Lexile measure
1020L
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English
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Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's...
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English
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
3) Lawless
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Series
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Judd Dunn and Christabel Gaines find their marriage of convenience slowly evolving into a union of undeniable passion, but when a mysterious enemy enters their lives, their newfound love is endangered.
4) Storm rider
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A spoiled teenage girl must leave her posh New York City life behind when her father is arrested for securities fraud and she is forced to move out to her uncle's house in the country.
6) Ebb and flow
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"After a "rotten bad year" on the mainland, eleven-year-old Jett returns to Newfoundland to spend the summer with his sprightly Grandma Jo (whose hair is dyed cotton candy blue to match her house), bringing along a shameful secret involving the betrayal of a friend. As summer unfolds, Grandma Jo nurtures in Jett his sense of caring for others while giving him space to breathe. Jett finds himself examining memories of his past like bits of sea glass-arranging...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer cares for his three sisters in a small Pennsylvania coal town, but despite his responsibilities, he is still a teenage boy and lusts after the mother of two who lives down the road.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kids can have all kinds of feelings and questions when a parent is incarcerated. Rafael is embarrassed. Rashid is angry. Yen wonders if it's her fault. This sensitive story illustrates a range of situations children may face with moms or dads behind bars, while reassuring them they are not alone.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"A woman begins serving two life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in 2003 California's Central Valley, reflecting on the San Francisco of her youth and her relationship with her young son while navigating the harsh realities of a bare-essentials life of casual violence at the hands of the guards and her fellow inmates"--
10) Canada
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English
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In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
11) To write a wrong
Author
Series
Justice seekers volume 2
Language
English
Description
In Angola State Penitentiary, a man is serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Riley Baxter is an eager reporter desperate for a story to make a name for herself. When she stumbles upon the daughter of the incarcerated man, Riley sees a little too much of herself in the teen, and vows to help prove her father's innocence.
12) Love, Jacaranda
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English
Description
"As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate...
13) Almost dead
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Series
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English
Description
Lately Cissy Cahill has been asking herself if life could get any worse. While in the middle of divorcing her husband, her psycho mom escapes from prison. Just when Cissy thinks nothing else could possibly go wrong, she finds the body of her grandmother, dead from what looks like a fall down the stairs. When more members of her family are murdered, the police are sure it is Marla Cahill, her mother. Even though she knows her mother is crazy, Cissy...
14) Little Dorrit
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...
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Series
We the weirdos volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow along with Jayden Jackson as he makes a new friend Eli. Will Jayden be able to open up to Eli after all he has benn through?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
"When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times--Cover, p. [4].
18) Taken away
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 390L
Language
English
Description
"Miles Pruitt has been struggling in high school. When his dad is sent to prison, things get worse. Miles quits studying, receives low grades, and gets kicked off the basketball team. How will he pick himself up and move forward?" --Amazon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With everybody else that's gone before." Jojo and his little...
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After their father dies unexpectedly in prison, twins Alex and Olly's relationship becomes fractured as they cope with their loss very differently, and to make matters worse, Olly is hiding the truth that Tyler, who recently arrived at their lakeside townfor the summer, is actually their half-brother.
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