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1) Smoke
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
2) Burned
Author
Series
Burned volume Bk. 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "The Other Side of the Door," ten-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she finally starts school and her Mormon family's efforts to secure homestead rights for their farm in New Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After meeting Emma, who is part of a band of Mormons making their way to Salt Lake City in 1856, Doe Sia, a young Bannock girl, proves her friendship when the two are caught in a brutal snow storm.
5) Burned (#1)
Author
Series
Burned volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
7) Slumming
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In their senior year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an "experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs attention and try to improve that person's life.