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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
In 1898, Miranda Colton, presumed dead by her family and friends, survives after nearly drowning in the Yukon and is drawn to the loner botanist with whom she crosses paths during recovery; meanwhile, the rest of her party, including her pregnant sister-in-law, attempt to survive the winter with inadequate shelter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
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Border trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The third of a three-part saga, following the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, cowboys and friends in 1952 who must find a way to cope with their changing world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
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These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
10) Music & silence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
English lutenist Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra in 1629, unaware of the harsh conditions and the love affair that await him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Julie Harmon, having taken over the work of a man after her father gets ill and dies, imagines that marriage will be different, but she and her young husband Hank discover their life together is also full of struggles.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend....
14) The prodigal
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Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Leah, having taken over the care of her younger siblings following the death of her mother, is also having to deal with the return of her sister who was once shunned by the Amish community and is now in a period of Proving, but her faith is sorely tested when she discovers a past betrayal that has robbed her of the happiness she might have had with Jonas.
15) Mudbound
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
16) Coal black horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.
At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety-blue on one side, gray on the other- Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
“Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.” So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an “A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition” that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a
...18) Bluebird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
20) Gallows thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Britain, 1820. After the wars with France, the government lives in mortal fear of social unrest. Rider Sandman is a hero of Waterloo struggling to repay his debts when he becomes involved in the case of a man waiting to be hanged in prison. Given the job by the Home Secretary of investigating the man's guilt, Sandman finds himself knee-deep in labyrinthine plots involving bribes, sedition and a massive conspiracy of silence.
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