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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened -- not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur -- but from its own arrogance and greed. At the center of the story is George Amberson Minafer, the pampered but pitiful, scion of the clan upon whose shoulders...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Elnora Comstock's first day at high school is a disaster. The other students laugh at her clothes, and then -- to make matters worse -- she learns she has to pay for her books and tuition. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and moves to New York, and when her husband loses his job, returns to the stage." ***"A powerful account of a young working girl's rise to the 'tinsel and shine' of worldly success, and of the slow decline of her lover and protector Hurstwood." Oxford Companion to Engl Lit. ***"Plain, unaffected, and unconventional story of the actual life of the lower middle-classes...
5) Remember
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Once again, the Baxter family is touched by love and loss, including the tragic events surrounding September 11. Ashley Baxter has locked up her heart, convinced that no one--including God--could love her because of the past behavior she is trying to forget. A few highly unlikely people help her open up to love and redemption.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...
8) Teen idol
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.
9) Return
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Luke and Reagan were saving themselves for marriage. But on September 10, 2001 they are swept up by passion for each other. The next day terrorists killed three thousand Americans and Luke's faith in God. He walks out on his church, on his girlfriend, and on their unborn child. Will Luke find peace as a "freethinker?" Or is he a prodigal son who has yet to return?
10) The sisters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister, Mabel, have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.
13) Right behind you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 65
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Clyde Griffiths was born poor, but his prospects improve when he is hired by an uncle who owns a shirt factory. Despite a warning to stay away from the women he manages, Clyde begins a love affair with a young factory worker named Roberta, but neglects her when he catches the eye of Sondra, a glamorous socialite. When Roberta turns up pregnant, Clyde's hopes of marrying Sondra are threatened and he responds with desperation.
15) Over and under
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1979, two boys get mixed up in a union labor strife while they are out exploring in the southern Indiana countryside. They make the most of their last summer of childhood innocence and freedom, and discover what it means to be friends.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. His old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. They become bitter enemies. Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves. As Messala is dying from being crushed in a chariot race, he reveals where Ben-Hur's family is. On the road to find them, Ben-Hur...
17) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
John Baxter hires a private investigator to fulfill his wife's dying wish--that they find their firstborn son and make him part of the Baxter family. Meanwhile, top Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews undergoes a personal search for truth despite great loss, and Christian Kids Theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that could take her from the simple life she has grown to love.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling humiliated and confused when his best friend Tessa rejects his love and reveals a long-held secret, high school senior Luke must decide if he should stand by Tessa when she invites a female date to the prom, sparking a firestorm of controversy in their small Indiana town.
19) The black rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional biography chronicles the story of Madame C.J. Walker, who rose from the poverty of her former slave parents to found a marketing empire that made her America's first Black female millionaire.
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