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Picture This Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Silvio has no interest in the student rebellion taking place at his high school. His fascination lies with Valentina, the prettiest girl in the school. However, Valentina already has a jealous boyfriend, Martino. Silvio finally has a moment alone with Valentina, and they share a kiss, but Silvio makes the mistake of telling his gossipy best friend, Ponzi. By the end of the day the entire school knows about the kiss, including a very angry Martino...
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Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her increasingly burdensome credit card debt. Emily Gray's narration bounces along with Becky and her buying whims,...
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A New York Times Notable Book
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as "beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald)
St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful,
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Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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Everyman's library volume 38
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English
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Published in 1830, Scarlet and Black (Le Rouge et Le Noir) tells the story of a provincial young man's attempts to socially rise beyond his modest upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy - yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
In Scarlet and Black, Stendhal paints a sweeping portrait of early nineteenth-century France - its social classes, professions, politics, and manners - in Paris and the...
13) Body & soul
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Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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The life of young Claude Rawlings, the son of an eccentric taxi-driver mother, is changed forever in the 1940s when a local music store owner discovers the boy is a piano prodigy.
14) Snow angels
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English
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Arthur Parkinson tells how his family fell apart, his problems when he turned fifteen, and how the murder of Annie Marchand, his old babysitter affected him.
17) Forrest Gump
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English
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Meet Forrest Gump, America's most lovable hero and the star of this wonderfully wacky novel. Pulitzer Prize-nominee Winston Groom's tale of a warm-hearted, slow-witted man's rollicking romp through three decades of history was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning motion picture Forrest Gump. But if you've only seen the movie, you've only heard part of Forrest's story. The original version of Forrest's adventures is even nuttier than the silver...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.
19) Icy Sparks
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English
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Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
20) Tully
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English
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As five young Kansans are touched by a tragedy that alters their lives, Tully explores her past to be able to forge a future.
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