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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter lives on a plantation where her father raises hunting spaniels and her only friends are her dog and the housekeeper. When troubled debutante Lulu Foxworth moves in to recuperate, Emily is forced to grow up faster than she had expected.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Set in South Carolina during the summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
6) Mama Day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mama Day uses her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and puts herself in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her niece, Cocoa.
7) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At fifteen, Huger Dillard already knows a great deal about the ways of the world--or so he thinks. He may not have a father, but with the guidance of his blind "Unc," Leland, and weekends spent at the Hunt Club--a tract of woods and swamp belonging to his family--Huger knows all about the land and the habits of its wildlife, from deer to the pompous Charleston doctors and lawyers who come to hunt them. But nothing can prepare him for the dark events...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
10) One summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just...
11) Endless
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Rory Miller learns that her love, Tristan Parrish, has been seeking a second chance at life on Earth by sending good souls to the Shadowlands, including her friend Aaron, her father, and her sister Darcy, she will do anything to save them, even if that means going to hell and back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
South Carolina high school senior Nat has worked hard to put her trailer-park past behind her, and when she and her boyfriend are crowned Palmetto Prince and Princess everything would be perfect, except that a prank they played a few nights before went horribly awry.
13) Hereafter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After learning the disturbing truth about her new town, Rory fights to protect her family from a mysterious force interfering with life on Juniper Landing"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirn y pasarn a sus hijas por generaciones.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the classmate she is tutoring in trigonometry admits she is pregnant, high school junior Rhonda must finally come to terms with the abortion her father insisted she undergo three years earlier and examine how it has changed her life.
16) Such a rush
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying, which allows her to forget her absentee mother and life in a South Carolina trailer park, but when Grayson, the son of her deceased flight instructor, blackmails her into working for him and his brother Alec, the consequences could be deadly.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about: her two little sisters, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie's magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation-- a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. As Evvie's talents waken, something dark...
18) The Glory Field
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After stumbling into a bear trap surrounding a large marijuana grove on his neighbor's property, Travis Shelton finds himself drawn into a world of subtle evils and danger as he struggles to free himself from his neighbor's influence and protect his close friends from a painful conflict.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the...
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