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1) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Missy tries to learn more about her mother's odd behavior as she and her two friends share some secrets during a long, hot summer in Mississippi toward the end of World War II.
Author
Series
Hill Hawk Hattie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there,
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived, and with help from childhood friend Noah she begins to uncover the truth about Jack's death and the company that employed him and Noah.
13) Little & Lion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
14) Trust
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930s New YorkCity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane-like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past--
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MADNESS LIES . . .
Emma can’t sleep.
CHECK THE WINDOWS.
It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer.
LOCK THE DOORS.
Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth...
17) Bloodline
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
What do you do when the knife is in your hand and every part of you wants to dig that blade into your skin? What do you do when you have a secret that you can't let out, no matter how much you want to scream it? What do you do to make yourself feel good enough to deserve love, when the world wants you to change? IN this map-your-destiny book, your name is John "Juan" Carlos Garcia. All you want is acceptance, but if you come out to your parents,...
Author
Pub. Date
s201
Language
English
Description
Jetta's family is the most talented troupe of shadow players in the land. Their puppet seem to move on their own. In truth, Jetta can see the souls of the recently departed and bind them to the puppets. But with the old ways forbidden by colonizers, Jetta must keep her dark magic a secret.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say. But who is the...
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