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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
Description
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
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Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets. Among them is Vernon Smother's son, Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom few know the truth - Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son. When Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob must confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Billy Bob knows the propensity of the town, Deaf Smith, Texas, to make scapegoats out of the innocent and to exploit and sexually...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age--until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm. Daring...
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Disorder in the court: the Stooges get involved in the trial of a fan dancer who is accused of shooting her lover. Malice in the palace: the Stooges try to recover a diamond stolen from King Rutin-Tutin's Tomb. Sing a song of six pants: the Stooges try to pay off past due notes to Skin & Flint by capturing a burglar. Brideless groom: Shemp must marry to inherit $500,000.
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House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decodence, revenge, and ulitmately murder.
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Claire Griffith has a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Rebranding herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of realizing her biggest dreams. One summer day Cleo and a woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a serene mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water and Cleo is missing. Who...
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"A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not...
11) 3:10 to Yuma
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
12) Native son
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
13) Primal fear
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller....
15) Jagged edge
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English
Description
An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Appointed to defend a drifter who has confessed to killing a small town's leading citizen, local attorney David Mitchell has no doubt that Ben Brown is guilty as charged. But when the state attempts to put a lid on the truth by refusing to call his client's young wife, Mitchell fights to expose the events that would exonerate Brown and justify the murder.
17) A time to kill
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
19) Bull: Season one
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Susan Wright is a Texas beauty who seems to have a fairytale life, complete with an adoring husband. But six years into the marriage, the fairytale crumbles when Jeff is found dead and buried in the couple's backyard. Susan is accused of murder, and she defends the charge by asserting that she had been the victim of physical and mental abuse for years. But the prosecutor is skeptical and seeks to prove that Susan is a sociopath who uses her looks...
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