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1) Remarkables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
Author
Series
Beasts made of night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
5) Wintergirls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Author
Language
English
Description
"'Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry...' The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle--her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family--described a woman who embraced life. Yet there was so much they didn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
Carver Briggs never thought a simple text would cause a fatal crash, killing his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. Carver can't stop blaming himself for the accident, and a judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation. Eli's girlfriend, Carver's therapist, and Blake's grandmother ask Carver to spend a "goodbye day" with them to share their memories and say a proper farewell. As other families ask for their...
Author
Language
English
Description
Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father's textile trade and caring for her family. When another tragedy places Elianna in sole charge of the business, her talent for design brings enormous success, but never the absolution she longs for. As her world unravels, she breaks off her betrothal to the only man she will ever love. Then illness...
10) The lost family
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's for the delicious food, impeccable service, and dashing owner and chef, Peter Rashkin. Peter suffers from the terrible guilt of surviving Auschwitz while his wife, Masha--the restaurant's namesake--and two young daughters perished. Although he is considered the most eligible bachelor in town, Peter has resigned himself to a solitary life. Then he falls passionately in love with beautiful young model June...
11) The Presence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
12) All-star fever
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bus Mercer, shortstop for the Peach Street Mudders, wants desperately to be picked for the county all-star team, but he breaks his parents' rules for riding his new bike, and feelings of guilt affect his game.
13) Into the Sublime
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four girls from a defunct thrill-seeking group descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a subterranean lake that local legends claim has the power to change things for those who can confront their deepest fears." --
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Language
English
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Description
15) Glass houses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet Gamache does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait....
16) In this moment
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career as a real estate agent, a hardworking husband on the verge of starting his own medical practice and a surprisingly good-natured teenage daughter. Most days Meg is able to keep it all together—thanks to an endless stream of alerts on her phone—and (more or less) seamlessly glide through life. After school pickup one day, Meg and her daughter, Audrey, are driving home when they see Jack, the twin brother of Audrey's...
17) Saint maybe
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when Ian's stinging words to his brother bring tragedy --...
18) Aftermath
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
20) The Crossroads
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past"--Title verso page.
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