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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
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The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving-now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
3) Housekeeping
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Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in...
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
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Continues the saga of the Berrybender family--rich, aristocratic, and English--as they travel across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe where they plan to spend the winter. Along the way they meet up with characters from the West including Kit Carson, the famous scout, and LePartezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief.
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
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Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
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In the Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at the point in time when the Mountain men and trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson though still alive, are already legendary figures...
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Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
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English
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Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
8) Floors
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Floors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
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Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have made their way to the little town of Trouble in California's gold country. Some people come to see the Gold Rush Museum. But most come searching for the booty that the train robbers supposedly dumped off the Golden Rail Express in the botched heist. When the museum watchman a retired SFPD cop, is murdered, Monk and his assistant Natalie are sent to investigate.
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It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers,...
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Now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk's former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona's husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille - a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt Tooti Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper,...
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"Doug, the husband of the heir to a historic estate that once housed an arts colony, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a ...journey into the past of this eccentric family" -- Provided by publisher.
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At a convention for the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, Adrian Monk meets fans as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Though he’s not preoccupied with the program, Monk can understand the phenomenon. Who wouldn’t want to live in an imaginary world?
But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show’s legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious...
But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show’s legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious...
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Berenson schemes volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Now that his job is secure and his wife's murder has been solved, Adrian Monk is feeling satisfied. It's a feeling he would like his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, to experience too. Monk doctors Ambrose's birthday cake with sleeping pills and when Ambrose awakes he's in a motorhome with Monk. A killer is about to turn their road trip into a highway to hell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
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