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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have ’Tis, the story...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood". So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
4) Plugged
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor while searching for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having escaped the famine that ravages their beloved Ireland, Nora Kavanagh and her son Daniel begin the difficult process of building a new life for themselves in America. Befriended by the wealthy Farmingtons and supported by the constant friendship of the injured Englishman, Evan Whittaker, Nora nevertheless finds herself caught in a conflict of the heart.Michael Burke, the strong, competent Irish policeman, desperately wants to keep his promise...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions...
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irish poet-patriot Morgan Fitzgerald, weary of the struggle just to survive in Ireland, finds new hope in his love for Finola, while in America, Morgan's friend Michael, a policeman, declares war against organized crime, not realizing his own son has been lured into the schemes of New York gangster Patrick Walsh.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora Kavanagh, left alone with her young son Daniel after the Irish Potato Famine claims the rest of her family, relies upon her faith in God to sustain her through the most difficult period in her life, and must decide whether to place her trust in Morgan Fitzgerald, a poet-rebel whose good intentions sometimes fail to produce results.
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The saga finds Morgan Fitzgerald adapting to life in a wheelchair as a result of an assailant's bullet to his spine. Meanwhile, his wife, Finola, must face the dark memories and guarded secrets of her past. In New York City, policeman Michael Burke is caught in a conflict between his faith and his determination to bring a dangerous enemy to justice.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morgan Fitzgerald, Michael and Sara Burke, and Evan and Nora Whittaker, friends divided by the ocean that lies between Ireland and America, have clearly seen the hand of God upon them, and they begin to realize His further plan for their lives when they are brought in contact with wounded people who need their love, strength, and help.
13) The given day
Author
Series
Coughlin novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
An epic tale set at the end of World War I follows the experiences of a family whose lives mirror the political unrest of an America caught between its well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. During the bloody police riots of 1919, a Boston police officer from a wealthy family, Danny Coughlin, joins a union movement to track down violent radicals, but his values are challenged when he learns that Luther Laurence, the African-American houseman...
14) Mick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
His friendship with two Hispanic students offers fifteen-year-old Mick an alternative to the drunken savagery of his brother and the narrow thinking of his Irish-American neighborhood in Boston.
15) Blood relations
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a somewhat enigmatic Spanish-speaking loner at school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Pronto Pike and his partner Eddie Holt follow the trail of rustlers who are raiding the Bar J Ranch and who are so ruthless that they have no qualms about murdering a woman. Pronto Pike had punched longhorns along the Rio Grande and ridden the rails back East, but he'd never been in a spot like this before. It had begun with a bitter standoff between a powerful rancher and a homesteading Irishman. It escalated into missing cattle, overlaid brands,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station--and a mystery.
18) Boy21
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
19) The corpse queen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
20) Billy Boyle
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Series
Billy Boyle World War II mysteries volume 1
Billy Boyle World War II mystery volume 01
Billy Boyle World War II mystery volume 1
Billy Boyle World War II mystery volume 01
Billy Boyle World War II mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help from his cop relatives and friends - when World War II breaks out. His rabidly anti-English family calls on his mother's distant cousin, Mamie, married to a general, to wrangle a staff job for him far from the fighting. But instead of a "safe, cushy" stateside assignment, he is ordered to London, still undergoing the Blitz. His "Uncle Ike" is Dwight...
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