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Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in...
Author
Series
Initial insult volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.
6) Squashed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As sixteen-year-old Ellie pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.
7) One of ours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"In a barren land, teenage Lucy is taken away from the community she has grown up in and searches the vast countryside for a new home"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
Author
Series
Everyman's Library volume 360
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch of railway track and the station nearby, and befriend the railway porter, who teaches them about running the station, and an old gentleman who takes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery, In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events. First published in June of 1912 when Montgomery had published Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard, and The Story Girl, it is my understanding that the author revised some of these stories to work in references to Anne and Avonlea,...
13) The clearing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington state to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944.
14) Adam Bede
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
1260L
Language
English
Description
Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret.
According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature, "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison." The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
"When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tommy Smyth, a high school junior and particle physics genius, goes missing, multiple lives intersect--or don't--as the residents of a small Texas town relate, in their separate voices, what each thinks might have happened to Tommy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold, but one day, a strange set of events draws Marner into the web of the community.
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The peace and prosperity promised with the end of World War I fails to come to pass for two ex-soldiers--Arkansas farmer Birch Tucker, who faces the loss of everything he and his family have worked for; and Max Meyer, a financial columnist who may have to forfeit his wealth and influence to gain the son he never knew he had.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time.
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel...
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel...
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