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61) The snows
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With the thread of family that connects them through the generations, Jim born in 1931, Cathy in 1942, Jill in 1969, and Mona in 2006 each find "sixteen" to be the pivotal age in their lives.
62) Being is Better
Author
Series
Better Together volume Book One
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amber has battled medical challenges – specifically epilepsy – her whole life. Due to her physical limitations, she has no friends, but does her best to trudge through each day with a smile.
Fellow “middle-school senior” Missy has struggles of her own. Following her brother’s death in Afghanistan, her father uprooted them from everything familiar, only to divorce Missy’s mother and move away, leaving Missy friendless...
Author
Series
Frazzled volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Abbie Wu goes to "Outdoor School," with her older brother as a counselor, she is torn between excitement and anxiety but decides to make it a life-changing adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Las cartas que escribe Charlie son n̕timas y n͠icas, desternillantes y devastadoras. Puede que no sepamos dn̤de vive, ni a quiň escribe pero, poco a poco, iremos conociendo su mundo a travš de ellas: la vida en el instituto, las primeras citas, las cintas de varios, los dramas familiares y los nuevos amigos. Un mundo en el que solo es necesario dar con la cancin̤ perfecta mientras conduces para sentirte infinito. -- p. [4] of cover.
65) Lolo's light
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies--unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably--on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Legacy: Allying themselves with the forces of light to end their evil family history for good, Holly and her cousins, Amanda and Nicole, work to save Jer, Holly's soulmate, from prison, under the mounting pressures from his father's cruelty. Spellbound: Holly Cathers, whose coven of Light is in shambles, finds herself enslaved by her enemy, Michael Deveraux, leaving Jer to attempt the rescue of his soul mate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
68) Supper Club
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Food, friendship and drama. High school is always cooking up something unexpected. Nora, Lili, and Iris are seniors at Seaside High. Their differing schedules and mounting extracurriculars inspire the girls to form a secret club where they can hang without sacrificing their future aspirations. Enter Supper Club, the delicious solution to their problems. When life starts to crumble like a cookie under the girls' feet, they rely on comfort food to...
69) Oliver Twist
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Joel Higgins has 901 unsent text messages saved on his phone. Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people he hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty much every moment thinking about Eli, the most amazing girl in the world. But that doesn't mean he's keeping it together, or even that he has any friends. So instead of hanging out with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...