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1) Dubliners
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard 'round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare...
4) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
5) Sula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Nel and Sula’s devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Nel and Sula’s devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies...
6) Eventide
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to the big city of Atlanta. And when, with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Father Tim, a bachelor rector living in a small town, gets more than he bargained for when he finds himself dealing with a very attractive neighbor, a wealthy widow, and his uninvited cousin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.
Luckily, she has a best friend, a similarly undiscovered girl with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through...
10) Middlesex
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mitford series has moved the hearts of millions of fans. Shepherds Abiding, which is accompanied here by two additional short stories, is a wonderful Christmas gift for all listeners. When Father Tim finds a battered nativity scene in an antique shop, he embarks on a humble endeavor to save it.
15) A new song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, recently retired from service at Lord's Chapel in Mitford, accepts a post as interim priest at a small parish on an island off the Atlantic Coast where he and his wife Cynthia quickly become involved in the lives of a whole new community of people.
17) In this mountain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
18) Main Street
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.
19) The moonlit vine
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taína (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taíno ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
20) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A disparate group of individuals finds a common cause and a code of values that transforms their small Massachusetts town into a home.
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