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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kay Lansing marries Peter Carrington, who has a shadow of suspicion hanging over him regarding the death of a neighbor's daughter two decades earlier and the drowning of his first wife four years before; Kay begins to doubt her husband's innocence and uncovers memories that may cost her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
5) Beach road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A struggling Long Island lawyer, Tom Dunleavy, recruits a Manhattan superlawyer, Kate Costello, to help him defend a local man accused of murdering three people near a movie star's mansion in East Hampton. The nation is watching what is expected to be a "trial of the century."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge's The Beach House opens with the death of a handsome townie on Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons, where being a single-digit millionaire is laughable and being poor is unthinkable. Peter Mullen is a high school dropout who parks cars at the private bashes of the superwealthy Barry and Campion Neubauer. When Peter is found dead on the beach, the Neubauers and their friends insist that he drowned, but his brother...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the best-selling Nanny Diaries finds Nan returning to New York after 10 years abroad and getting approached by a drunken 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents' brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe"s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large, chaotic household. Rosie, orphaned at eighteen, has been living with her distant relative Bertram, who sparks her first erotic desires. But just as he begins to return...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Featuring a new introduction, this contemporary satire of turn-of-the-century Boston, which was awarded the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 1938, traces the life of George Apley, a wealthy businessman who sacrifices his individuality to social custom and tradition.
10) The pickup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, white South African woman Julie Summers, contemptuous of her privileged background, becomes involved with Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, and when he is deported, insists on marrying him and going to live in the primitive conditions of his home village.
11) Inside girl
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Flan Flood, younger sister of the handsome and popular Patch, just wants to fit in when she starts high school in New York City, but her crazy friends Liesel, Sara Beth, and Philippa make it anything but easy for her.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is...
14) El gran Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
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El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espírtu de la generación de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sí mismo, Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su país: la combinación de dinero, ambición y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta de moraleja--sobre...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Rumors fly about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, New York's brightest star. All eyes are now on her sister Diana, New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the seductive Penelope Hayes and Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud. This novel is set in Manhattan, 1899.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's side, however, those watching New York's favorite family begin to suspect that all is not as it seems behind the stately doors of No. 17 Gramercy Park South. Farther uptown, Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the city's most celebrated couple. But despite the glittering diamond...
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Series
Inheritance games volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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"Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her luck changes in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves her virtually his entire fortune. The only catch? Avery must move into his sprawling mansion, full of secret passages, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that was just disinherited. This includes the four Hawthorne...
18) Minaret
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In her Muslim hijab, with her downturned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans." "Twenty years ago, Najwa then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class, westernised Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But Najwa's days of innocence ended when a military coup forced the young woman and her family into political...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
20) Shade me
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
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Nikki Kill has always been an outsider. Born with rare synesthesia, she sees the world differently. In Nikki's eyes, happiness is pink, sadness is a mixture of brown and green, and lies are gray. To Nikki, Peyton Hollis, the ultrarich it-girl at school, was seemingly untouchable. That is, until Peyton is violently attacked and the only phone number the hospital finds in Peyton's cell is Nikki's. Suddenly Nikki is pulled into Peyton's glittering,...
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