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81) Growing up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” (The New York Times).
One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years”
Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell...
One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years”
Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell...
82) Rascal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Skunks, woodchucks, a crow named Poe, an 18-foot, half-finished canoe in the living room...welcome to the North home! Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home to loin the menagerie, but soon raccoon and boy are best friends.
83) Strike zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derek's season is not off to a good start, with two good friends on a different team and his father unable to coach, and having a girl on his team only complicates things more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Born in England and now living in Wyoming, Fuller was conceived and bred on African soil during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979), a world where children over five "learn[ed] how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean all the guns in the house, and ultimately, shoot-to-kill." With a unique and subtle sensitivity to racial issues, Fuller describes her parents' racism and the wartime relationships between blacks and whites through a child's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Based on a little-known tale from Abraham Lincoln's childhood, this deeply researched book tells the true story Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by a dog named Honey.
"Based on primary sources, the true story of Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by his rescue dog"--
87) Uncle Andy's
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
Description
The author describes a trip to see his uncle, the soon-to-be-famous artist Andy Warhol, and the fun that he and his family had on the visit.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the mid-1980s. Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David are sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks--and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother--more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children--and a violent father only compound...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The legendary American musician, singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker offers a collection of stories, written by his own hand, that focus on the memories of his life, from his childhood to today.
Grohl offers an honest portrait of an extraordinary life made up of ordinary moments. From his deep connection to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to the awe he still feels about raising his daughters, he tells stories from his soul. Packed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here
As a...
“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here
As a...
98) Brahms
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.
99) Red zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High.
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