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2) After this
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Overweight and nerdy Oscar lives with his Dominican American mother and sister in New Jersey and dreams of becoming a renowned author and finding true love, but unfortunately, a family curse stands in the way of his wishes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A history of the Algonquian Indian peoples that populated the eastern coast from the Canadian Maritimes to the Carolina capes, focusing on their lifestyle, arts, land struggles, and continuing traditions.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ali Nujood, the first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce, tells the story of her experiences after her father arranged for her to be married in 2008 at the age of ten to a man three times her age, describes what happened when she sought out a judge in order to get a divorce, and discusses the impact of her actions on traditional Yemen culture and society.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 141
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
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Description
Written in just fifty-two days in the year 1839, "The Charterhouse of Parma" has since become known as Stendhal's finest work. Evidence of haste is infrequently apparent in this remarkable story, which follows the eventful life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrizio del Dongo. From his childhood in the family castle by Lake Como to the battlefields of Waterloo, Fabrizio proves himself charmingly headstrong and painfully naïve. Upon returning injured...
16) Ava's man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Pulitzer prize-winner author of All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg builds a monument to his grandfather Charlie Bundrum. Known for being a passionate family man with a special talent for living and surviving, Bundrum was a master roofer, carpenter, whiskey-maker, fisherman, banjo player, and buck dancer. Unable to read, he asked his wife Ava to read him the newspaper every night so he would not be ignorant. Set in the Great Depression, Bundrum's...
17) Ethan Frome
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of letters written to Tom Brokaw in response to his book "The Greatest Generation," in which he examines the lives and experiences of the men and women of the Depression and World War II era who Brokaw credits with building modern America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
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.
20) Jazz
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
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