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1) Christy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
2) Ellie
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English
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Ellie Maust grows up Amish, but she isn't happy with her father's strict ideas. Why can't she wear bright dresses like her friend, Missy, or perfume and powder like the hired girl? As the oldest girl in her family, Ellie learns responsibility young, helping to care for the babies, prepare food, and do household chores. She sits through the long preaching services, and goes with her boyfriend, David, to Sunday night singings. Join her as she experiences...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Because of his job at the newspaper Thorliff Bjorklund is growing accustomed to his new college life away from family and friends, but it's summer and Thorliff must return home to North Dakota and confront his faltering relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Anji Baard.
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Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Patricia Hickman crafts a critically acclaimed gem that warms the heart and tickles the funny bone. During the Great Depression Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. After they pass a stormy night in a church, Jeb is mistaken for the new pastor-a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. But the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Shelby (Turtle) never had any female friends. But when a girl from Sri Lanka moved to town in the summer of 1979, Turtle invited her to a secret haven: the Blue Hole. Turtle had no idea how much that simple gesture would affect the rest of her life. In a time when America was technically beyond the Civil Rights era, there were those in Turtle's small Appalachian town who rejected the presence of someone different.
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Language
English
Description
Leah is a child from Away, isolated from her peers because of her stutter. But then she begins painting scenes that are epic in scope, brilliant in detail, and suffused with rich, prophetic imagery. When the event foreshadowed in the first painting dramatically comes true, the town of Mattingly takes notice. Leah attributes her ability to foretell the future to an invisible friend she calls the Rainbow Man. Some of the townsfolk are enchanted with...
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English
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"Katie has always imagined her life being just like Mamm's. It's why she chose baptism and why she'll soon marry Abram Zook. But ever since Hannah left, the only thing that truly makes Katie smile is the sketchpad in which she indulges her talent for drawing faces--a sin that, if discovered, could get her shunned by her family, her friends, and even Abram. Yet Katie sees her secret pastime as the only way to quiet a growing restlessness she'd just...
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Language
English
Description
"The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s. Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every...
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