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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
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When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self- respect they need to survive.
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Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, seventeen-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston where she is spending the summer and determines, against all advice, to prove her irrevocable love and devotion.
13) Flip-flop girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
16) The yearling
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Pub. Date
1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Jody Baxter, living in the Florida backwoods with his pet fawn, experiences the joys and pains of growing up.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
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Billy Baggs novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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Academy Award Best Picture volume 2018
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment"--Container.