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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
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Description
"A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Román returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
5) What hearts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commander Honor Harrinton of the Royal Manticoran Navy has been exiled for making a superior officer look foolish. Now, she is in command of an aged light cruiser patrolling a godforsaken quadrant of the galaxy. To cap it all, the local system's aborigines smoke homicide-inducing hallucinogens.On Basilisk Station (or "HH1" as it's known to the faithful) is the first instalment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 380L
Language
English
Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
13) The Pox party
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
14) Libyrinth
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a distant future, when Libyrarians preserve and protect ancient books housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth, Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who believe the written word to be evil, and she tries to mend the rift between the two groups before all are destroyed by their war for knowledge.
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