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2) Paula
Author
Publisher
HarperLibros
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of love stories, a heartfelt romance about a widower sheriff and divorced schoolteacher searching for a second chance at love--only to be threatened by long-held secrets of their small town.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to her. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family -- a seemingly
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803....
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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