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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
4) Kent State
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
5) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then...
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