Catalog Search Results
2) The Steps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.
3) Eggs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
6) Kicked out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dime can't get along with her parents. When she moves in with her older brother, she finds out that if she starts believing in herself, other people will too.
9) On beauty
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a novel about love, loss, and the beautiful mess of family. Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie's ebullient; he's brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future,...
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old. Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.
13) Bound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, fifteen-year-old Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood.
19) Together
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores what keeps clothing and other things together in everyday life.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request