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1) Unless
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English
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"Nothing short of astonishing." - New Yorker
"A thing of beauty-lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." - Los Angeles Times
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
For all of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old African-American man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous woman and an unknown father, meet through Even's lover Joody Two Sun, and embark on a quest for family, love, and commitment that takes them to places they never imagined they would go.
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The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent...
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2023.
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English
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"Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an unexplained tragedy forced the camp to close, the girls drifted apart. Years later, reunited at their beloved camp counselor Violet's funeral, the four former best friends quickly realize how much they've changed over the years. But despite their differences, they agree on one thing-Violet's so-called accidental death...
6) Girlchild
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
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English
Description
In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to come to life. But Dwayne had died...
8) Saving Emma
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"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering thepastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of...
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Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Eleven-year-old Harriet's mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the adults in her life. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, and to fund her escape she runs errands for the seniors that live in the same apartment complex as her family. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, searches for fuel for her art, and attempts to...
11) My Jim: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to be sold.
13) Penance: a novel
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English
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"Nearly 10 years after 16-year-old Joan Wilson was set on fire by three other schoolgirls, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from interviews with witnesses and family members, historical research and correspondence with the killers themselves, but wonders how much of the story is true."--
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High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park--Star of TV's hottest new teen drama--but Ally's not intrested in following in her BFF's Hollywood footsteps. Infact the only thing Ally's ever realy wanted is to go to Columbia and study abroad in Paris.
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Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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An epistolary novel uses letters written between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a crazy mother, and epistles that express the narrator's own internal feelings of self-doubt to weave this bittersweet coming of age story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about...
18) Oreo
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English
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Oreo, a biracial black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery.
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Judge Crain investigates the murder of popular barber Joe Junior McBride. Joe's teenage daughter, Ashley, is best friends with Judge Crain's daughter, Patty, giving him even more impetus to solve the crime. For a seemingly innocuous town, Post Oak is rife with suspects, including Joe's troubled son, unhappy wife, pretty new barbershop assistant, and adoptive brother. As Judge Crain sorts through the evidence, he tries to stay one step ahead of his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Set in 1960s Mississippi, Layla Jay hopes to please her grandmother and to catch the eye of Jehu, the cutest boy in the ninth grade, by pretending to be saved, but her plan backfires when her mother marries the revival preacher.
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