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(0)Lesley M. M. Blume
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world. In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Cornelia, eleven-years-old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world.
3) Tennyson
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Presents the journal of a paleozoologist who departed England in 1850 on a journey around the world seeking to learn the ways and fates of the most ancient creatures, accompanied by a strange pet, Gibear, and with the chiding voice of his mother often inhis ear.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
A compendium of practical information and cautionary tales about fairies and other similar magical creatures that might be encountered in modern cities like New York, intended to help the child who may come into contact with them.
