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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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840L
Language
English
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"Set in South Carolina during the summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Nomi struggles not to give in to despair when her mother and sister flee their home in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, leaving her in the care of her increasingly depressed father.
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English
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From a highly acclaimed author-the enchanting, bittersweet story of a motherless young woman torn between real life and the otherwordly companions only she can see.
On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window-a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in the small town of Troon, Scotland.
As a child, Eva is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Left in the care of a distracted great aunt after her mother commits suicide, fifteen-year-old Alice begins hearing her mother's voice and, through subsequent "conversations," becomes more aware of her mother's unconventional past.
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English
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Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . .
At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she'd be alone but for a childhood friend who's come home by chance. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed...
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English
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Levi Revel is a boy in danger of losing his family and maybe his mind. He's in awe of his father, Everest-a majestic dreamer, a master builder, a man with a violent, secret past. As the family moves from state to state, Levi hears solace in the voice of God, a voice that sends him preaching from treetops and roofs. But as the family begins to fall apart and Levi enters adolescence, he starts to hear more troubling things. When Everest takes him on...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
Español
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Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirn y pasarn a sus hijas por generaciones.
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Series
Nick Barrett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary novel by a bestselling author, Nick Barret is led back to Charleston by a mysterious note to search for answers about the mother who abandoned him. In his search he not only learns the truth about his mother, but he also discovers the perfect love of God.
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English
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Alice is making her daughter dinner when her mother Olivia, who left her at a day care center when she was four-years-old, appears at her door. Although Alice has managed to navigate an unforgiving foster care system to build a good life for herself, she has never really recovered from her mother's disappearance. Olivia's sudden reappearance is like a quiet, unexplained gift. Over the next couple of weeks Alice asks Olivia to dinner. Olivia is always...
19) Drifting
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Claire has always been haunted by the memory of the mother who abandoned her, and now, as a mother of two, she feels compelled to find her missing mother, leading her on a journey to understand her past.
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