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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance, this moving new novel subtly re-imagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy -- now 31 years old –- lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world. She was brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that the only one who can help Dre is his half-brother LeVon, a drug-dealing gangbanger who thinks only of himself. Somehow Linda must get through to LeVon in order to save her son. Though she is deathly...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
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