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1) Back roads
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned...
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
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Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
When the moral-minded eldest daughter of a 1970s Idaho family returns from a missionary trip and claims she is pregnant with God's child, her strong-willed sister and she bond with fellow outcasts while awaiting the birth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in...
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in...
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English
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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
10) A pure heart
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
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"A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing....
11) The silver boat
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English
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From the beloved Luanne Rice comes a heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth, especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland....
13) Max cleans up
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Max's big sister Ruby is determined to help him clean up his messy room, but he keeps rescuing things that she wants to throw away.
14) Max's ABC
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Series
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max's ants escape from their farm, they start on a search for food, spreading everywhere, until his sister, Ruby, comes to the rescue, in a text which includes a different letter of the alphabet on each page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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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...
18) The night door
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Series
Edison Beaker creature seeker volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Edison Beaker discovers that the family extermination business is a front for creature hunting, he and his sister Tesla encounter a world full of monsters and an adventure to restore the keystone to the Night Door.
20) Raising Lumie
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Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
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