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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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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.
6) Ava's man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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...
7) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter, introduces Washington, D.C., attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
14) Wish you well
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
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Civil War novel traces the lives, passions, and careers of military leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience the battle from four very different points of view.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
18) Down river
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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