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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the death of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally...
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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,...
3) The waves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments...
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At 45, Sol Nazerman, who survived Bergen-Belsen although his wife and children did not, runs a Harlem pawnshop. But the operation is only a front for a gangster who pays Nazerman a comfortable salary for his services. Nazerman's dreams are haunted by visions of his past tortures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Charlie embarks on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that...
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Lexile measure
790L
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English
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Gordon Comstock, poet and author, gives up a good job to become a part-time bookshop assistant, thereby gaining time to write. Despite some modest success, he embarks on a long slide into penury which results in a squalid existence. The symbol of everything he rebels against is the ugly aspdistra, which for him represent dull, lifeless respectability and submission to the tyranny of the "money-god."
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Legendary figures of Mississippi's past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's [the author] own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale.- Back cover.
10) The color purple
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book." A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty...
11) Under the skin
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The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
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Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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An ambitious man and his adoring daughter are separated and estranged by an ocean and by the tides of history in this "marvelous" novel (Los Angeles Times).
For Anna Schoene, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face...
For Anna Schoene, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s creates a special bond between her and her father. He is the son of missionaries, a smuggler, and a millionaire who leads a charmed but secretive life. When the family flees to Los Angeles in the face...
13) The ghost writer
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Plagued with unpleasant memories of his mother's death, shy Gerard Freeman is obsessed with the manuscript of a century-old ghost story written by his great-grandmother and entrusted to his care.
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Two couples intersect in unexpectedly passionate and volatile ways during a luxurious week-long Caribbean vacation, including Dorothy and George, who are taking a first journey abroad together after fifty years of marriage, and Jan and Annemieke, whose union is coming to an end due to illness and incompatibility.
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