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Series
Jessica Darling novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Devasted when her best friend moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Hope has no one to talk to as she struggles with her type-A personality, insomnia, and her mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious "Dreg" who works his way into her heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fukú--the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents,...
Author
Series
Tracy Flick volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister, aka "Mr. M.," thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren--a well-liked, good-hearted jock--to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul's sister Tammy in a snit. So she runs too, on an apathy platform,...
4) Twins
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Language
English
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Description
"A startlingly beautiful love story… A thrill to read… The most detailed, disturbing, and loveable oddball romance you'll ever read." - Frederick Barthelme, author of Elroy Nights
"A beguiling story of the powerful ties between identical twins… Dermansky has crafted a memorable novel." - Booklist
"Sometimes despairing, sometimes blackly humorous, always engrossing and thoroughly original. A wonderful debut." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"With...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1977. Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming host, everyone's best friend, and amateur emcee--to introduce him to the crowd. Housewarming parties, Annie Hall parties, and bar mitzvah parties punctuate Jacob's childhood and require command performances by all the Green family members. But when the confetti settles and the drapes are...
Author
Series
Jessica Darling novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Jersey teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions of Marcus, the boy who sent her hormones and her mind wild the year before, and promptly broke her heart.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" An exhilarating debut novel of reinvention, friendship, and ambition-from the Jersey shore to Scotland. Tom Alison is weeks away from collecting his diploma at an East Coast boarding school and heading off to the Ivy League. His goal: a job in high finance alongside the power brokers he's been watching from a distance as the working-class son of a single mom. But when he gets caught selling drugs on campus, his life among the children of privilege...
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