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"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
23) House arrest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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"Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison is a completely average twelve-year-old: average height, average weight, average brown hair of average length, average brown skin and average hazel eyes. The only things about her that aren't average are her name (too long and princess themed), her ability to draw animals (useful for her future career as a wildlife illustrator), and the fact that she is a half-orphan who has never met her father and is forced...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another...
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Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with her family's expectations and takes a part-time job with eighty-three-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles. The mysterious employer asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of her ancestor Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials. Immediately, Lauren finds herself drawn to this girl who lived and died four centuries ago. As the fervor increases around the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Overview: Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to...
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Owl diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
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English
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Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of her best friend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
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"Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and...
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Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
Description
"In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors"--Verso page.
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"Elizabeth Canning discovers an awful secret in her deceased mother's diary. Believing her chances for a happy marriage are spoiled, she leaves her fiance a letter and flees town. Anticipating a Christmas Eve wedding with Elizabeth, David Stinner is confused by her letter and desperate to find her. Can David root out the truth about the past and bring back his bride? Or is the truth destined to bring an ultimate end to their romance?"--Amazon.com....
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Princess diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
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English
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Princess Mia is introduced to her Genovian subjects, and more importantly, she goes out on a date with the newly appointed Royal Consort Michael Moscovitz.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. Ordinary life is turned upside down as schools are closed, and all spheres of public life are shut down. Suddenly, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake....
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PUBLISHED HER IN ITS ENTIRETY, Frida Khalo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. This passionate, often surprising, intimate record, kept under lock and key for some forty years in Mexico, reveals many new dimensions in the complex persona of this remarkable Mexican artist...
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Marc Brown's Arthur (Chapter books) volume 9
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 09
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 9
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 09
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 9
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Description
When Arthur finds Sue Ellen's lost diary at the library, he wonders whether or not to read it before he returns it to her.
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The host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Hopping from the Hamptons to the Manhattan dating world, the dog park to the red carpet, Cardinals superfan and mama's boy Andy Cohen, with pooch Wacha in tow, is the kind of star that fans are dying to be friends with. If The Andy Cohen Diaries was deemed "the literary equivalent of a Fresca...
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