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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique"--Provided by publisher.
4) Sister wife
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In a remote polygamist community, fifteen-year-old Celeste struggles to accept her destiny while longing to be free to choose how to live her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, fifteen year-old Rose meets and marries Rene, a Yankee from Brooklyn, New York, who takes her north to his home where she encounters many differences in attitudes and lifestyles. The joys, heartaches, fears, and
7) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
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Language
English
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Description
In matters of the heart the path is rarely linear. Follow Clarity James on her journey through heartbreak, and find the light at the end of the tunnel in letting go.
Wherever life may take you after seventeen, may you find clarity along the way.
Life is basically falling in and out of love with things and people over and over again—it is both wonderful and terrible, magical and painful all at once. But it will be an adventure either way.
9) Keeper
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
10) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the rain forests of Malaysia, Nazam waits anxiously to climb the bee tree, proving that he is capable of succeeding his grandfather as leader of the traditional honey-hunting clan.
11) Edenville Owls
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover
12) Firegirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastati
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him t
19) Immortal city
Author
Series
Immortal city novels volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jackson is the hottest Angel in the city, soon he'll be a full Guardian and people will pay for him to save them. Then he falls for Maddy who likes him for who he is and not for his celebrity, but a serial killer is loose.
20) Nature Girl
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend the summer with her family in rural Vermont, eleven-year-old Megan, a rebellious, immature urbanite gains self-confidence and maturity as she and her dog survive being lost on the Appalachian Trail.
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