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3) Trailerpark
Author
Language
English
Description
Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks...
5) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, and only place she can go is to Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meet in such circumstances, unleashing predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
Author
Language
English
Description
At the Van Meter family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke, Winn and his wife Biddy are preparing for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Though Biddy has planned the wedding with military precision, the arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices - those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal - that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
12) Jack and Jill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a story inspired by the famous nursery rhyme, Jack and Janey - nicknamed Jill - go sledding, make an unexpected turn onto a dangerous path, and fall off a hill. The accident leaves the two seriously injured and bedridden for several months. As Jack and Jill recover, their mothers and friends help them combact boredom with fun activities.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.
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