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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly, leaving his wife, brother, and young son to deal with his sudden death.
3) Christy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her--and her one-room school--as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
4) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother...
8) Hummingbird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted"--
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seeking God's forgiveness for a past sin, eighteen-year-old Kate finds summer employment at a church camp, where she is tempted to have a fling with co-counselor Matt.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school in Lambertville, Tennessee. Like any other girl, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret. There's a reason why she transferred schools for her senior year, and why she's determined not to get too close to anyone. And then she meets Grant Everett. Grant is unlike anyone she's ever met -- open, honest, kind -- and Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. As they...
11) Birthday
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eric: There was the day we were born. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each other's side--as Morgan's mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won't be best friends forever. That there'll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there's no turning back the clock. Morgan:...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bryce remembers it like it was yesterday. The scent of chlorine. The blinding crack and flash of pain. Blood in the water.When she wakes up in the hospital, all she can think of is her disastrous Olympic diving trail. But everything is different now. Bryce still feels seventeen, so how can her little sister be seventeen, too? Life went on without her while she lay in a coma for five years. Her best friend and boyfriend have just graduated from college....
13) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Retta Lee Jones walks out the door of Starling High School with a diploma in hand and stars in her eyes, determined to make something of herself. Armed with a beautiful voice and full of country music dreams, Retta just might have the talent and drive to make it big in Nashville.
16) Revelator
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale about a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turned her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left by her father in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The remote hills of the Smoky Mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and upon her arrival, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the presence of the family's...
Author
Series
Tenney volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Tenney is booked to play at Nashville's City Music Festival on the same day as her best friend Jaya's fund-raiser, it feels like music is tearing these two friends apart. Can Tenney find a way to use music to bring them back together?
19) The eternal ones
Author
Series
Eternal ones novels (Kirsten Miller) volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives.