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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
2) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of High bury village. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and...
Author
Series
How to ruin-- series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.
7) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the story of the life of its titular protagonist, Jane Eyre, starting with her abusive childhood in Gateshead Hall, and continuing with her challenging education at Lowood School, her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester, her time in the Moor House, where she is courted by her earnest but cold cousin, St. John Rivers, and finally with her reunion with Rochester. Jane...
8) Twisted
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Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Beth Anne Reimer, renamed Bex Andrews, is ready to start a new life in foster care. There, she won't be known as a serial killer's daughter. Though her father was never tried for the murders attributed to "The Wife Collector," he disappeared after questioning. The police want to use Bex to lure in her father. But is she baiting a serial killer or endangering an innocent man?"--
Author
Series
How to ruin-- series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster, worried about her "non-boyfriend" in the Israeli army, her mother, new stepfather, and the baby they are expecting, a new boy named Nathan who has moved into her apartment building and goes to her school, and whether or not she really is the selfish snob that Nathan says she is.
11) Ghost wood song
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Series
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English
Description
Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Ve̤rnica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Ve̤rnica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.
15) The darkening
Author
Series
Darkening volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
Author
Language
English
Description
Coming home from boarding school, Ashlyn has big plans for the summer until her wealthy father is arrested for tax evasion, her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion," and Ashlyn, not a fan of the outdoors, is sent to a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"Mia is sure that there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested high school freshman who's failing Algebra--until she finds out she's the heir to the throne of a small European country. Now she's learning that no matter how bad things seem, they can always get worse"--P. [4] of cover.
18) Firstborn
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Language
English
Description
"Tiadone has been forced to live her entire life as a female accepted as male in her community in order to survive as a firstborn child. But when she needs to pass the rites of manhood, she finds the Creator may have use for her feminine traits after all"-- Provided by publisher.
20) Airfield
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1933 fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small Texas airport waiting for visits from her pilot-father from whom she longs to learn about her deceased mother.
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