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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his own twins during a snowstorm in 1964 with only a nurse to help him, makes a decision that has far-reaching effects on his life, and the lives of his wife and son, when his infant daughter is born with Down Syndrome, and in a vain attempt to protect his wife, he orders the nurse to take the baby to an institution.
5) Villette
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English
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Villette (1853) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was the third and final novel she published in her lifetime, followed only by The Professor, her posthumously released first novel, which was largely reconceived and rewritten as Villette. Inspired by Brontë's experience traveling and teaching English in Brussels, where she went at the age of 26 with her sister Emily before returning alone the following year, Villette is the story...
7) The sisters
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
8) The American
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Series
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English
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A brash American expatriate confronts the profound differences between the Old and New Worlds in this classic tale. Soon after wealthy businessman Christopher Newman decides to leave America for a life of leisure in Europe, he becomes acquainted with Claire de Cintré, a beautiful widow whose family-the Bellegardes-are mainstays of the French aristocracy. Determined to win Claire's affection, Newman befriends her brother, Valentin, and pursues his...
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English
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The final novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870. The novel revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephew Edwin Drood. Before the death of his parents, Edwin was promised to marry Rosa Bud, another orphan, but their affections have cooled upon reaching adulthood. Rosa has also attracted the affections of Jasper, her teacher, as...
12) Son
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
15) No Marble Angels
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English
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Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age.
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English
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Mattie Ingram -- the love of his life and the mother of his child -- was the most stubborn, independent, contrary woman in Nevada. And in the lonely months since he'd seen her, he'd discovered he needed her more than breath itself. But Mattie was having nothing to do with him! A baby coming, her business failing ... What else could possibly happen? Mattie wondered. Well, the father of her child could insist on becoming a permanent part of her life....
20) The good wife
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Patty Dickerson's husband was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for the murder of an elderly woman, and now Patty has to raise their son alone amidst the scorn and humiliation within her community.
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