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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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The truth could cost her everything. Her whole life, Ava Carson has been sure of one thing: she doesn't measure up to her mother's expectations. When Mitchell Carson sweeps into her life with his adorable son, the ready-made family seems like a dream come true. In the blink of an eye, she's married, has a new baby, and life is wonderful. Or is it?
44) My darling girl
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
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"One night, everyone on Earth has the same dream--a dream of being guided to a watery death by a loved one on November 1. When they wake up, most people agree: after Halloween, the world will end. In the wake of this haunting dream and saddled with its uncertainty, Lyd and her daughter, Mott, navigate a changed world, wrestling with how to make choices when you really don't know what comes next. Embarking on a quixotic road trip filled with a collection...
46) Ice run
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"A romantic weekend at an old luxury hotel turns to terror for private detective Alex McKnight and Natalie Reynaud, a Canadian police officer, when they receive an ominous message in their hotel room that hints at a dark Reynaud family secret."--from NoveList.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The story of how one little boy found the courage to survive years of physical abuse-- and how the human spirit can triumph over even the most severe of circumstances. The Pelzer family's secret life of fear and abuse was first revealed in Dave Pelzer's inspiring New York Times bestseller, A Child Called "It," followed by The Lost Child and A Man Called Dave. Here, for the first time, Richard Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive...
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Series
Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
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English
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"Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is--he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
51) Mom and Dad
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
52) Still waters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water.
53) Bad fruit
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English
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"Bad Fruit is about the difficult, sometimes abusive, relationship between a mother and daughter. As the boundaries of mother love are crossed, universal themes of family, history, and identity help reveal the shattering effects of generational trauma"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.
55) The wives
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"She's never met the other wives. None of them know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, she can see her husband only one day a week. But she loves him so much she doesn't care. Or at least that's what she told herself. But one day, while she's doing laundry, she finds a scrap of paper in his pocket, an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and she knows it's another of the wives. She thought she was fine with her arrangement,...
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From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspensea story ripped from todays headlinesof a tight-knit English community, whos rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade. A small towns beloved family. A shocking, senseless crimeand the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows...
57) The Color purple
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An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
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Ivan Zoschenko, a high school football hero, returns to Coal Run years after a mining explosion that killed his father and devastated the community, intent on a showdown with former teammate Reese Raynor who is slated for release from prison where he spent fifteen years for beating his wife into a coma.
60) With teeth
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"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love. If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain in her...
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