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1) Dawn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Dawn, who cares for her alcoholic mother, tries to suppress a painful childhood memory as she contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"They were a perfect family, golden and carefree--until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and...
4) Outer dark
Author
Language
English
Description
An Appalachian woman sets out to find her missing baby after she learns that her brother, the father of the child, lied when he told her the baby had died at birth.
5) Wasteland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brother and sister must deal with terrible consequences when their love for each other stretches past acceptable boundaries.
6) Forbidden
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
Despite all the problems she faces at home, Tiny Lambert's experiences at Black Gap High School help her begin to feel good about herself --until the day that she is raped by her stepfather.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.
10) The monk
Author
Series
Oxford world's classics volume 22
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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Description
Left at a monastery as a baby, Ambrosio grew up to be a cruel and stern monk, renowned for his sermons and piety. When a nun named Agnes goes to Ambrosio for the sacrament of confession, she admits that she is pregnant after having a long love affair with a man named Raymond. Though admissions told in confession are meant to be kept in confidence, Ambrosio turns Agnes over to the authorities in her convent for punishment. Without a trace of guilt...
11) Push :a novel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a Lifetime limited series! Christie, Dawn's daughter, searches for her own happiness and break the cycle of darkness that has plagued her family for generations in this book in the Cutler series from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.C. Andrews.
Having grown up surrounded by love and safety, there's no real reason for Christie Longchamp to feel that a cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove—a cloud with origins in her...
Having grown up surrounded by love and safety, there's no real reason for Christie Longchamp to feel that a cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove—a cloud with origins in her...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The grand, gothic Wyndemere House is a labyrinth, containing as many secrets as it does corners obscured in shadow. Home to the Davenports, a wealthy and distinguished family, Fern Corey and her mother have lived there as servants for Fern's entire young life. Despite their difference in station, Fern and Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, have always been extremely close. Which was never a problem... until they came of age. An intimate encounter following...
14) Hamlet's Father
Author
Language
English
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Description
We all know Shakespeare's classic ghost story—the young prince Hamlet's dead father appears to him, demanding vengeance upon Hamlet's uncle Claudius, who has usurped the throne and, to add insult to injury, married Hamlet's mother.
The young prince dithers and delays, coming up with excuse after excuse to postpone his vengeance—but not for the reason Shakespeare told us. It is instead because Hamlet keeps discovering evidence that
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong...but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother Christopher discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Working as a hit man on the ravaged streets of New York City after a dirty bomb is unleashed on Times Square, Spademan takes an assignment to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist only to discover that his mark holds a shocking secret and that his client hides a more sinister agenda.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching. Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In their remote Viking settlement, Folkvi and her brother, Aslakr, have always been close--unnaturally close. They've grown more intimate still as Folkvi learns her shaman mother's craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carriesoff their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. aAslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkvi to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he's done the unthinkable: He's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
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