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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in South Carolina during the tumultuous summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees also ushered young Lily Owens, a girl transformed by the power and divinity of the female spirit, into the canon of modern-day heroines. Lily and her fierce-hearted black 'stand-in mother escape the racism of their hometown and find refuge with an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, whose world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna is mesmerizing."--Publisher's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devasting storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire. The plot contains mild profanity, sexual references and violence. Co-author is Margaret Stohl.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. But he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal to get back to Gatlin. Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return. Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
8) Terminal
Author
Series
Virals novels volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--
10) The whispers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Riley's mom has disappeared, and Riley knows that if he leaves tributes for the whispers, magical fairies that grant wishes, his mom will come back to him." --
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.
14) Darby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
15) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived...and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Entering the witness protection program with her father and sister, Darcy, Rory leaves her friends and family without so much as a good-bye. Starting over is very hard for Rory and Darcy. As the sisters settle in to Juniper Landing, it seems as if their new home may be just the fresh start they need. But just as they start...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past.
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a Black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.
19) Hereafter
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Rory Miller thought her life was over when a serial killer set his sights on her and forced her into witness protection. But a fresh start on Juniper Landing Island was exactly what she and her family needed. For the first time in years she and her sister hang out at the beach, gossip about boys, and party together. She's also made friends with a local clique - including a magnetic and mysterious boy named Tristan. But Rory's world is about to change...
20) Air
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her widowed father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels; she has been in a wheelchair all her life, and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently:...
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