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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A beautifully told story of a small Oklahoma town and a mystery that has haunted its residents. In 1972, Morgan David Evers, no more than a baby at the time, disappears in the tiny town of De Clare. Only his pajama bottoms are found on the banks of Willow Creek. Now, 30 years later, he mysteriously returns in this edgy, intriguing tale peopled by authentic heartland characters.
2) Rumble fish
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Rusty-James wants to be as tough a teen as his older brother, Motorcycle Boy, who has always helped him out of tough spots. But one day, when Rusty-James faces danger, Motorcycle Boy is not around.
3) Baker Towers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh2 second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town, built on coal; a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters2 breakfasts and firemen2 parades. Its children are raised in company houses - three rooms upstairs, three rooms down. Its ball club...
5) 'Salem's Lot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Product Description: Upon its initial publication in 1975, Salem's Lot was recognized as a landmark work. The novel has sold millions of copies in various editions, but it wasn't until Centipede Press published a special limited edition in 2004 that King's masterpiece was brought to brilliant and eerie life. With the addition of fifty pages of material deleted from the 1975 manuscript as well as material that has since been modified by King, an introduction...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence of something amiss. Mysteries fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely-white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper...
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Plainsong volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they'd taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them -- and for many other townspeople it also promises to be a long, hard winter. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn't coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters. At school the children of a disabled couple suffer...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
10) Middlemarch
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 64
Language
English
Description
"George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;...
11) In this mountain
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Series
Mitford years volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Father Tim Kavanagh, retired and living back in Mitford, finds himself becoming depressed and discontent with his idle life, especially as his wife Cynthia's career as a children's book author is taking off, and when a health crisis strikes, he finds himself depending on others for a change.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Description
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
13) A fine balance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
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Burgdorf cycle volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
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Description
Trudi Montag a dwarf, living in a small German town, through both world wars, learns to find acceptance, because she learns that all humans are different.
15) Dandelion wine
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis...
17) Plainsong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground....
19) The moon is down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, provincial Norwegian town is invaded by German soldiers. An act of brutality begins an uncontrollable, unalterable chain of events.
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