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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER
MEET THE DOG
WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD
HOW TO BE HUMAN
The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she's ever wanted. Then suddenly her dad is gone and life for Tamara and her mom is changed forever. When Tamara stumbles upon a mysterious book at a travelling library, a door to unforeseen possibility may be opening. Print run 100,000.
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a striking novel. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed.” —Michael Connelly "I doubt you will read a better book this year.” —Val McDermid Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all"-- Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers, to her horror, that her mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving...
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Atria Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. In Colleen Hoover's gripping novel, reminiscent of the bestselling works of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes, a young woman decides to reveal the dark secrets of her seemingly-happy family before she leaves them behind, but when her escape plan fails, she must deal with the staggering consequences...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more
“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s...
“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"-as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Upon learning on Christmas Day that their rich and imperious grandmother may soon die and disown the family unless the one who offended her deeply will confess, each of the three Sullivan sisters sets down her offenses on paper.
12) Unbecoming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Three women. Three generations. Three secrets.
A Stonewall Honor Book!Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story, secrets and lies are uncovered: Mary's illegitimate baby, her zest for life and freedom...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection
"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." — USA Today
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.
15) The nix
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"-- Publisher.
16) Dig
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Dee and her seven-year-old brother, Eddie, have been on their own for six weeks. Their father has seemingly vanished into the baking Arizona desert. Their money is drying up and the rent is coming due, but it's a visit from a social worker and the prospect of being separated from Eddie that scares Dee enough to flee. She dupes her brother into packing up and embarking on the long road trip to Canada, their birthplace and former home....
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Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art.
19) Someday
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Series
Baxter family series. Sunrise volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers stressed, Cordelia planned to use the same trace-your-roots genealogy idea her older sister used years prior. And getting partnered with her longtime crush, Kodiak Jones, is icing on the cake. All she needs to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results, and get that easy A. But when Cordelia's GeneQuest results reveal that her father...
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