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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
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"Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One's Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women's literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Blinking Jack Stokes was a skinny tenant farmer, and Ruby Pitt Woodrow was "the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry.....They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life."--Pbk. cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of black artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.
8) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
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Mistletoe collection volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection. At thirty-two Kimberly Rossetti, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Author Beatrix Potter purchases Hill Top Farm in the Lake District hamlet of Near Sawrey in 1905 where she plans to recover from the death of her fiance and work on her books for children, but she and her many animal friends soon become caught up in the domestic joys and mysteries of the small town.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning. Now in paperback...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Sara's terrified. She's falling in love with a famous man. In the witness protection program, her safety depends on staying invisible -- and loving Adam could get her killed. Hidden away in the witness protection program, she's falling in love with former pro football player Adam Black. FBI agent Dave Richman has his hands full keeping her safe from her sister's killer. When events bring Sara face-to-face with terror, will she rely on God for protection....
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Everyone in Sawrey likes Ben Hornby. So when Beatrix finds the shepherd dead in the meadow and suspects foul play, she wonders who would have done such a thing. A trio of village cats has an idea: When Ben breathed his last, his sheep must have seen his killer before scattering. So they set out to find the far-flung flock. Although she’s distracted by duties at the farm and the sad plight of a young girl, Beatrix must get to the bottom of this....
14) Yo!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The American odyssey of Yo, a Dominican woman writer whose family arrived in the U.S. as refugees from a dictatorship. The novel follows her youth, with its energy and optimism, and the setbacks as she grows older, including two divorces.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sonia Gutiérrez's Dreaming with Mariposas, written in a Tomás Rivera and Sandra Cisneros bildungsroman vignette style, recounts the story of the Martínez family as told through the eyes of transfronteriza/transboundary Sofía Martínez, "Chofi," Francisco and Helena's daughter, as well as multiple narrators, emulating oral tradition. The novel embraces food as a communal practice with the ability to heal a family through storytelling. Dreaming...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
...this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand... Nikki Grimes discovered the power of writing at the tender age of six, when, alone in her room, she poured her fears, anger, and tears onto a piece of paper - and felt sweet relief. Words and faith were her most enduring companions as life flung her headlong from one harrowing experience to the next through her childhood and teenage years. Words, spilled into notebook after...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
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