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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old African-American man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous woman and an unknown father, meet through Even's lover Joody Two Sun, and embark on a quest for family, love, and commitment that takes them to places they never imagined they'd go.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"Meet Ove. He{u2019}s a curmudgeon{u2014}the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him g2sthe bitter neighbor from hell.g3s But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn{u2019}t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Two men---Seth Walker, a teenager trying to understand the genetic nature of his mother's early onset Alzheimer's, and Abel Haggard, an elderly hunchback who spends his days alone on the family farm thinking about the past--are linked by their mothers' stories of a fantasy world in which the lack of memory is a blessing.
7) Forever odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
8) Red River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
9) Odd Thomas
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he's right. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone...
11) Rabbit redux
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"A triumph."
NEWSDAY
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first...
NEWSDAY
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything...
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything...
13) The human stain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
17) The wedding
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that loss, embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all over again.
18) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
20) The King's Fifth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A 1967 Newbery Honor Book. While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.
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