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Author
Series
Slammed novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of willpower to keep their love afloat.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 216
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Four generations of black life in America.
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Forced into a summer internship, sixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch discovers the local university holds sacred Ojibwe artifacts and remains, and with the help of her twin sister and fellow interns she embarks on a journey to repatriate the remains and uncovers a deadly mystery involving missing Indigenous women.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended." -- $cFrom publisher's description.
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school freshman Presley Moran tries to break out of the shadow of her popular family members and make a name for herself at school, but when she follows her young aunt's advice to improve her looks and social status, she finds her world crashing in around her.
8) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hired by a semi-retired gangster to find his enticing young ward, a promising porno-film star, Amos Walker journeys through the seamy underside of Detroit and unwittingly solves the murder of a popular black labor leader."--from NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
"This novel in verse captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit"--Back cover.
11) Elena's song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Estranged husband and wife Jesse Gordon, a Christian songwriter, and Elena Breen, a beautiful singer, are reunited after Elena damages her voice and tries to commit suicide and Jesse rebuilds her faith in their marriage and in God.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly married Michiganders Bob and Linda Tarte moved to the country per her desire, and soon she talked him into acquiring a rabbit to add to their two cats. Despite the bad attitude of the bunny, one animal led to another, until there were more of them than you can shake a bird at. Tarte was sometimes hard-pressed to name them all, since they encompassed ducks, bunnies, cats, doves, canaries, turkeys, parrots, starlings, geese, and parakeets. While...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bronwen has long felt that she was switched with another child at birth, and so although she loves Jared, she must decide if she is ready to be married or should live on her own first.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
This tale of young men growing up in a working-class Michigan town without fathers to guide them is "melancholy, surreal, and funny all at once" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
The summer Michael turns seventeen, his father disappears. One by one, other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and—in a more promising era—worked....
The summer Michael turns seventeen, his father disappears. One by one, other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and—in a more promising era—worked....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The lives, loves, fates, and fortunes of the colorful inhabitants of Weneshkeen, a resort town on the shore of Lake Michigan, both townies and ritzy summer visitors, intertwine over the course of a single tumultuous summer.
17) Summer love
Author
Series
Silver Beach volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In an idyllic summer community on Lake Michigan, Elli Wells and her younger brother Ethan, jealous Charlotte Ransom, and love-stricken Sam DeWitt play out a drama of tormented emotions and family secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.
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