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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror when the lives of everyone in his family are changed forever. On this same day, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew and sets out to find him. In San Francisco, a girl is born, her destiny mysteriously linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At age three, Barty loses his sight only to regain it ten years later. What happens as his amazing life...
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Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
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The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"There was a time when the world was sweeter... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister......
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Bryon and Mark have been inseparable best friends from childhood, but now, at sixteen, they both sense they are growing apart. When Byron discovers that Mark is pushing dope to young kids, he must fce a decision that might destry their longtime friendship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A novel of a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
8) Many waters
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Time quintet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was...
10) Cimarron Rose
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Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland.
11) Labor Day
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Series
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English
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"As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret."--back cover.
12) Ordinary people
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain...and ultimate healing.
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Pendragon series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fourteen- year-old Bobby Pendragon has it all; he's smart, popular, and a star basketball player in quiet Stony Brook, Connecticut. But a visit from Uncle Press soon topples all of that as Bobby learns that he is a Traveler, someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Joshua Arnold and his mother move to their summer home in Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico, when Joshua's father joins the Navy during World War II. Joshua copes with the Mexican and Anglo customs and is concerned with his mother's drinking. When his father dies in the war, he takes responsibility for his mother, his own life, and his father's business.
16) Snow angels
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Arthur Parkinson tells how his family fell apart, his problems when he turned fifteen, and how the murder of Annie Marchand, his old babysitter affected him.
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Tales of the Otori volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBook II of the internationally best-selling Tales of the Otori trilogy, a sweeping saga set in a mythical, medieval Japan. In Book I of the Otori trilogy, Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn created a wholly original, fully-realized fantasy world where great powers clashed and young love dawned against a dazzling and mystical landscape. Nightingale was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one...
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Series
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
(1964) 1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Finding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators' new detective agency. But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the place got its name!
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Series
Pendragon series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And heś taking Bobby along for the ride.