1980
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
2) Open book
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Language
English
Description
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood...
3) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Nicholas Sparks returns with his signature combination of gripping, emotionally resonant storytelling and love overcoming all odds"--
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull...
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Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of gloriously twisted (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten"--Jacket.
6) Wonder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A True classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition of The Great Gatsby has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West 3 to include the author's final revision and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scoot Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement...
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English
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Description
Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems. Though his body is never recovered, their mother, unable to give up hope, launches an organization dedicated to missing children. Their father simply leaves, starts another family somewhere else. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in coffee shops, airplane aisles,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mei Tachibana has no friends--and she doesn't need them! Ever since her "friends" betrayed her in elementary school, she's sworn off friendship entirely. All it leads to is betrayal and heartbreak, and she's well enough on her own. But everything changes when she accidentally roundhouse kicks the most popular boy in school! However, Yamato Kurosawa isn't angry in the slightest-- in fact, he thinks his ordinary life could use an unusual girl like...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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Language
English
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"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her...
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English
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A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
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English
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When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos--seems like it isn't worth her time. But when she loses her job after a botched investigation, she suddenly finds herself with nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse north of Detroit, Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens -- DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life ... even toys. And Jack's newest toy -- the Christmas Pig (DP's replacement) -- has a daring plan: Together they'll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend...
16) Dog diaries
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.
17) Otherworld
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the newest set of virtual reality gear hits the market, Simon can't wait to test it out. But, when his friend Katherine suddenly disappears after being seen with men from the same gaming company, Simon must decide how far in the game he's willing to go to save her"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Good morning. Do not get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, Do, Create the things. Let others tussle it out. Vamos! Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda's audience...