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Singing River series volume 1
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As the year 1928 begins, fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her mother is expecting her fifth baby. Lanie has dreams of going to college and being a writer. Then tragedy strikes. Book One in the Singing River Series
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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HL 590L
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"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
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HL 500L
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Macy's school officially classifies her as "disturbed," but Macy isn't interested in how others define her. She's got more pressing problems: her mom can't move off the couch, her dad's in prison, her brother's been kidnapped by Child Protective Services, and now her best friend isn't speaking to her. Writing in a dictionary format, Macy explains the world in her own terms-complete with gritty characters and outrageous endeavors. With an honesty that's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud" and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is,until her journal goes missing... Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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HL 540L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
6) Tacky goblin
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"The diary of a young man's journey through the grotesque underbelly of daily life. Or maybe it's the exposure of daily life itself as a grotesque underbelly, blistered and searing and glaringly obvious, like a passed-out sunbather. Fleeing a talking mold stain in the ceiling of his bedroom in Chicago, he moves to Los Angeles, where he rents an apartment with his sister, Kim. Despite the new city, new friends, and new love interests, something haunts...
7) Cleaning up
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"Jess finds a secret diary and imagines what it would be like to be a girl who has everything. Will she become so wrapped up in someone else's life that she misses a chance to create her own? Jess cleans houses to save money for college, because her dad -- unemployed and off the wagon yet again -- has moved the two of them out of the city into a decrepit borrowed tent and trailer. Jess wavers between anger at her father and fear that poverty and addiction...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Flat-out addictive, devious, delicious, and gasp-worthy . . . your next binge-read . . . a satisfying tale of class, revenge, privilege, and lies." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times–bestselling author
In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book—with devastating consequences.
Miri Tan loved...
In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book—with devastating consequences.
Miri Tan loved...
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Twelve-year-old Annie loves her friends, her animals, and the horse ranch she has lived on her whole life. Ripped from it all at what feels like a moment's notice, she is, placed on a 53-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean with her mom, dad, a captain, a tutor, and her older brother who seems to hate her. Living in such small quarters with her brother DJ is nightmarish all on its own, but her heart was, left on the ranch with her animals and she has...
10) 31 Fields
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A little girl full of dreams sinks into sleep as her mother whispers a fairy tale to her ear-a woman who leaves everything behind and travels to Budva. An orphan who lives in Osijek with his uncle dreams of becoming a world-famous writer. A beautiful woman finds out she's pregnant. A football player has been sending letters for decades to the so-called 'Mr. Smith'. Is it possible that these people-who are on their paths in different time periods are...
11) The Mess of Me
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I remember my Nana once saying everyone should have at least one good summer in their lives, one summer that they never forget. I think, this is not a bad way to start my sixteenth year. This is not a bad way to start our summer. And I give Joe a slow smile.' Sixteen year old Lou wants to be thinner. Joe is her best friend and last night they found something they shouldn't have in his older brothers' wardrobe. Leon and Travis are shady figures, living...
12) Dronehunter
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When a girl from the city shows up, a young falconer starts to get interested in her. But will he manage to win her heart, when he has to survive every day by hunting delivery drones around the city, when things go bad one after another and when she turns out to be too much of a free spirit?
A story with GameLit elements.
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For her 18th birthday, Lenora Grace Williams is given a box. Aside from trinkets and photographs, there are three letters from her mother, written before she died. While reading the letters, Lenora wrestles with finding her faith, following her heart, and forgiving the secrets and heartache her mother left behind.
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For 13-year-old Krystal, staying in one place for too long isn't an option. Her eternal wanderlust compels her to go wherever the wind takes her. But that's not all that's making her restless. She doesn't have the best relationship with her mother and older sister and hitch-hiking is her only escape.
What Krystal didn't count on was a trip with her absent mother and boastful sister. Suddenly, she'd give anything to go home. Will the three of them...
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"Quality I want you I want to touch you and sift through you and vomit you and fuck you and hold you and be you. I want to sleep forever in an old graveyard under the grass. No computer screens. No talking, no feeling, no wanting, no disappointment, no feeling like you deserve what you get. No feeling bad for no fucking reason. No nothing. No trying to be nice and look like I enjoy the situations I'm in.The depths of the ocean, the magnitude of mystery,...
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"I canʼt figure myself out sometimes. It is because I do not know who I am. Or maybe it is because I do not know what I am. Because there is your brain, and then there is you. They're separate. But what exactly are you? What is it when you use "I" as a word for yourself?" Meet Ana: as an introverted, self-deprecating teen girl, she is tormented by her frenetic mind's eternal anxiety-fueled antics. Trapped in a culture she despises, middle-class America's...
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"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
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College students Rose and Jessica embark on a spring break dream vacation off the beaten path at a Florida lake house B&B. Jessica loves Rose like a sister and planned this life altering getaway basically behind Rose's back, but then finds herself floating on air in love with the destination she chose. And Rose gains something more than she had ever dreamed possible-a connection to a kindly man who helps her through opening up to strangers as well...
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Part of the ALA YALSA Award-winning series, The Bitter Frost Series or the Frost Series (TM).
A series of letter from the Winter Fey Prince Kian of Feyland to the Summer Queen Breena during the time of their separation. Their love was forbidden as Winter and Summer Fey are at war with each other. Promised to each other at birth during a brief interlude of peace between the warring fey, Kian and Breena have always known they were each other's destinies....
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