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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and sheis left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.
4) Elevation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
8) Next
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
This book interweaves the stories of various human and animal characters with genetic abnormalities and the complications that are associated with their existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communities — that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from...
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds — two men, two faiths, two communities — that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the author's efforts to eulogize a beloved rabbi who is near death, while at the same time befriending a Detroit pastor who gives spiritual guidance to the poor and homeless, and describes how observing these two different religious leaders rekindled his own faith.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? CHARLIE: "I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me." NICK: "Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities -- but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she's never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way ... until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person's infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kylee is ensconsed in the Sky Castle, training with Mem Uku to master the Hollow Tongue and the Ghost Eagle. But political intrigue abounds and court drama seems to seep through the castle's stones like blood from a broken feather. Meanwhile, Brysen is still in the Six Villages, preparing for an attack by the Kartami. The Villages have become Uztar's first line of defense, and refugees are flooding in from the plains. But their arrival lays bare the...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy--what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom. When their paths converge in route to the ship that promises salvation, Joana, Emilia, and Florian find their strength, courage, and trust in one another tested with each step closer...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
18) Delicates
Author
Series
Sheets volume 2
Publisher
ONI PRESS
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander the earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as a freak who...
19) It: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Description
"To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing.... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is...
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