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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13–year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear defines her life–"Carson McCullers meets Alice Hoffman" (Baltimore Sun).
Ship Sooner hears everyone and everything in her sleepy Massachusetts town. Sounds of frost forming on glass; a rabbit hopping...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938--When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's...
5) Woodlawn
Language
English
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Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
6) I hear
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A baby responds to all the familiar things she hears.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Button House – the living and the dead – are back as the BAFTA-nominated supernatural sitcom returns for its fifth and final series. The unlikely house share between Mike and Alison and their after-life tenants continues to cause comedy chaos. There’s April fools’ high jinks between Alison and the ghosts. Meanwhile, Mike struggles to handle the insurance claim on the gate house fire (yes, lightning really does strike thrice)....
10) The best of me
Language
English
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Description
The story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after twenty years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today.
12) I hear
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
What different sounds do you hear throughout the day? How about a phone ringing, a bee buzzing or even your heartbeat? We live in a world bombarded by noise and we don't always think too much about the sounds we hear or enjoy listening to. This is a book of colourful and creative imagery highlighting some of the different sounds that fill our day. There is plenty to discuss in this simple yet deceptively clever book.
13) The echo chamber
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Amassing a collection of historical artifacts through the use of her extraordinary hearing, Evie Steppman, a woman who grew up in mid-20th-century British-occupied Nigeria, realizes that she is losing her abilities and resolves to document the remarkable story of each object.
14) Firestarter
Pub. Date
1984, [2014]
Language
English
Description
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.
15) Of sound mind
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A slow-boil, modern noir, Of Sound Mind finds audiometry technician Richard Keene settling into his new, center-city apartment just as he reaches his thirtieth birthday. Formerly confined to a mental institution, Richard struggles to adapt to a world of adult freedom. He possesses abnormally acute powers of hearing and suffers from claustrophobia, yet he feels unleashed to dare fate in high places - in short, he is a bundle of neuroses. When he...
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