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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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...
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...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Four siblings, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape the harsh living conditions....
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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...
9) Outer dark
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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.
10) The monk
Author
Series
Oxford world's classics volume 22
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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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...
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English
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To uncover the truth, she'll have to break the code of the hills...In the Missouri Ozarks, some things aren't talked about ? even abuse. But prosecutor Elsie Arnold is determined to change that. When she is assigned to prosecute a high-profile incest case in which a father is accused of abusing his three young daughters, Elsie is ready to become the Ozarks' avenging angel. But as Elsie sinks her teeth into the case, everything begins to turn sour....
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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.
13) 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
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
A veteran LAPD homicide detective who discovered that his own father was the Black Dahlia killer shares his subsequent investigations into his father's other criminal activities, which the author believes include unsolved murders spanning more than six decades.
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"By sharing her personal journey through the pain she has suffered at the hands of her perpetrators, author Erin Merryn proves that one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Simply by speaking out and bringing the subject of child sexual abuse to the forefront, she has created a wave of change--hange not only in legislature, but also in the hearts of those around her and the world. In this thought-provoking book, readers will discover...
18) Weeping willow
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.
19) Silent house
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Sarah finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house with no contact to the outside world, panic soon turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous.
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing - his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from...
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