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1) Hamlet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 1390L
Language
English
Description
"To be or ot to be?" Hamlet is, arguably, Shakespeare's most well-known play, with its compelling lead character, stunning language, and philosophical underpinnings. This drama of the procrastinating Danish prince who ponders whether or not to revenge his father's death now appears in a beautifully illustrated edition with annotations by Princeton professor Jeff Dolven.
2) True grit
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and a key to famous lines and passages that make the Bard come to life for all readers.
A young prince, called home for the funeral of his father, begins to suspect that his father's sudden death was not an accident.
5) Mermaid
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Desi writes a letter to her Dad in heaven and sends it off with a balloon. It is found and answered by a family living miles away. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Faith comes home after learning of her father's tragic death. Losing her role model, she is faced with a choice between finishing her education and taking over his ministry. Struggling to cope with his passing, she has an unwanted visitor to guide her through her pain.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
She was wrongly accused...and now she's searching for the dangerous truth.Finally exonerated after fifteen years in prison, Kinsley Garrett's determined to find her father's true killer-even if it makes her a target. Staying alive means relying on police chief Marcus Bayne's protection, but she won't trust him...or anyone. Not after the way everyone turned on her following her arrest. But as Marcus risks everything to shield her, can Kinsley keep...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Becky, Adam and their five-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a fourth of July celebration kills Adam. Struggling with the grieving process Becky decides she needs to step away from the family farm and all its reminders of the life she once had. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits with her old friend from school.
9) Give or take
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.
10) The Sonata
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A young violinist unravels her long lost father's past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first...
12) True Grit
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
16) The Tree
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—along with her four young children—struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then...
17) Hope Ranch
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A young girl has it all a beautiful ranch, a horse named Faith, and the love of her family. But after the death of her military father, she and her mother are in danger of losing their family ranch, too. With a little help from friends and their majestic white horse, they hatch a plan to raise enough money to save the ranch while learning to never lose hope, despite all odds.
18) Amazing racer
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her own anger and sadness. Her family doctor informs her that her father had a secret, that the mother she never knew was alive and well. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer and discovers that in caring for the horse, she is able to overcome her hardships and emotional trauma. Through the victories and new friendships she forms,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, ONCE UPON A RIVER is the story of Native American teenager Margo Crane in 1970s rural Michigan. After enduring a series of traumas and tragedies, Margo (newcomer Kenadi DelaCerna) sets out on an odyssey on the Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the water, Margo encounters friends, foes, wonders, and dangers; navigating life on her own, she comes to understand her potential, all...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the tenth anniversary of his father's mysterious death, Gio brings a birthday cake prepared by his mother to a memorial celebration hosted by his uncle Angelo, a Brooklyn mafia boss. Gio₂s life begins to change as he pieces together what happened to his father all those years ago, coming face to face with a kind of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.
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