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An innocent young girl who is caught between her divorced parents attempts to understand life and its injustices. Shuttled between her parents, who value her only as a means for provoking each other, Maisie is drawn into an entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal.
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Jessica Darling novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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Devasted when her best friend moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Hope has no one to talk to as she struggles with her type-A personality, insomnia, and her mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious "Dreg" who works his way into her heart.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...
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"The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on one year reflecting upon the brief lives of five doomed sisters. The Lisbon girls fascinate their community as their neighbors struggle to find an explanation for their tragic acts"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
6) Sweetgirl
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Braving a northern Michigan blizzard to search for her missing meth-addicted mother, Percy James stops by the cabin of two drug addicts and flees with their endangered baby, triggering a dangerous race from the elements and a band of desperate criminals.
7) Ginny Moon
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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the high school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems in English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit ... different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and...
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A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and discussion guide.
Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also...
Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Hannah Roberts is the golden only-child with a perfectly scheduled life, raised in a prominent political family. Living with her wealthy, unaffectionate grandmother while her parents work abroad, Hannah prepares to spend a lonely Christmas when she learns a shocking truth: the man she believed was her father is not her parent after all. In an effort to find answers, she begins a desperate search for her real father, Army helicopter pilot Mike Conner,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Evelyn Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.
15) Wish you well
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
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In 1940, a tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southeastern Virginia, but a courtroom battle could determine the fate of the entire family.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains...
17) Alice Bliss
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Alice Bliss, whose father has been deployed to Iraq, struggles to cope with his absence while falling in love with the boy next door and navigating her complicated relationship with her mother.
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The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of "The Secret History" is "an elegant, edifying work of art" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark work of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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"Set in South Carolina during the summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge...
20) Promise broken
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Promises volume 1
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After losing her mother and the abandonment of her father, Promise has two goals: graduate from high school and be loved. Her pursuit of these goals will lead to life-altering events.
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