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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
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English
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"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 850L
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English
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The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved “bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys-and girls-and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere...
7) Citizen girl
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Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.
Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four-year-old Girl is struggling to keep up with the essential trinity of food, shelter, and student loans. So when she finally lands the job of her dreams she ignores her misgivings and concentrates on getting...
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Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately wants to have child.
This is what's at the heart of Silas House's third, masterful novel, which tells the story of Easter and Anneth, tragically left parentles as children, who must...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Twenty years after her brother is hounded from his home by rumors about his alleged role in a young girl's disappearance, Lisa and her security guard friend become increasingly curious about a child they glimpse on a mall's surveillance cameras.
10) The family man
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A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia, now twenty-nine, is an actress-hopeful. When she moves into Henry's basement, Thalia finds a champion in her long-lost father.
11) Mathilda Savitch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
A first novel by a Guggenheim and NEA fellowship recipient finds young Mathilda investigating her older sister's shattering death and learning perplexing truths when she accesses her sister's computer journals and reads about a secret underworld life.
12) The ask
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"Milo Burker - husband, father, and development officer at a third-tier university in New York - has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo receives a second chance from his former boss: he must reel in a potential donor - a major "ask" - who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. The Ask is a tour-de-force from a writer who has already demonstrated that the truly...
13) The betrayal
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Leningrad in 1952: a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha, preparations for the hospital ball, work and the care of sixteen year old Kolya fill their minds. They try hard to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but even so their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is still in power, and the Ministry for State Security has...
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A family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family centers on Helene, a woman who must make the most of a tumultuous time, in a book that reveals the scope of German citizens' denial--or "blindness of the heart"--as a survival mechanism during World War II.
15) Say her name
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In a novel based on the author's real-life tragedy, Goldman, consumed with grief and guilt over the accidental death of his wife just before their second anniversary, obsessively collects every memory of her, especially her writings, with the hope of keeping her alive in his mind.
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When the Bergamots move from an upstate college town to New York City, they're not sure how they'll adapt. Soon Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large university. Liz, who gave up an academic career to raise her children, is busy ferrying young Coco around. And fifteen-year-old Jake is taken into the fold at an elite private school. But their upper class cocoon is ripped apart by scandal when Jake causes a good family to face bad choices....
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Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers, filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary--before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.
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In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at a writers' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterwards, he sends her a letter. So begins an extraordinary novel told in absorbing correspondence that explores faith, creativity, depression, passion, what it means to be a true friend, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice. How much should we give up for those we love?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
20) Heart of palm
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Utina, Florida, is a small, down-at-the-heels southern town. Once enlivened by the trade in Palm Sunday palms and moonshine, Utina hasn't seen economic growth in decades, and no family is more emblematic of the local reality than the Bravos. Deserted by the patriarch years ago, the Bravos are held together in equal measure by love, unspoken blame, and tenuously brokered truces. The story opens on a sweltering July day, as Frank Bravo, dutiful middle...
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