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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
The epic tale of Scarlett O'Hara, her life, loves, and ultimate tragedy. Set against the background of the ante-bellum South, this novel chronicles the story of one family's destruction by the conflict between the states.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads to his car. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening around the corner with its radio blaring is about to...
Author
Series
Peaches volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murphy, Birdie, and Leeda get into more teen adventures together as they deal with boyfriends and family and continue to grow up.
5) Peaches
Author
Series
Peaches volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
Author
Series
Peaches volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three very different friends, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie, struggle to cope with the joys and sorrows of love, family, and destiny as their friendship is tested beyond its limits.
7) Caleb's wars
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over the German prisoners of war brought to his rural Georgia community during World War II.
8) Spite fences
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence, hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"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,...
10) Sea change
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family home on Selkie Island, seventeen-year-old Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie's brother will soon return to Georgia from Alaska to marry. Plotting to accompany the newlyweds on their honeymoon occupies much of Frankie's waking hours, while at the same time she is coping with the pressures of puberty and its effects on her body and mind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of...
Author
Series
Eden Moore trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden Moore becomes a representative for the thousands of ghosts haunting the fields at Chickamauga, Georgia, where more than thirty-five thousand soldiers lost their lives during the Civil War, and must find a way to help the spirits find peace.
Author
Series
Eden Moore trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eighteen years, Wren Gray has been the model daughter - which in her family means all As, zero boyfriends, and early acceptance into a pre-med program. But as graduation nears, Wren can no longer tell if her parents' ideas about her future align with her own. She knows she needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn't even know what they are? Charlie Parker, on the other hand, knows exactly what he wants. A gentle boy with a...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it's . . . something at first sight. He knows she's special, possibly even magical. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because of his Tourette's syndrome, Spencer finally feels like he belongs. But as Hope and Spencer get older and life gets messier, the clear label of 'friend' gets messier,...
17) Breathless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
18) Blood brothers
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.
19) Red mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn...
20) Crush control
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Willow has spent most of her life as her mother's sidekick in a popular Las Vegas hypnotism show. So when she and her mom move back to their sleepy southern hometown to start over, she thinks she's in for a life of quiet normalcy. Except that her new life turns out to be anything but, when she kinda sorta hypnotizes Quinton, the hottest guy on the football team, to fall madly, deeply, head over heels in love with her. But what started out as an innocent...
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