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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Sara's terrified. She's falling in love with a famous man. In the witness protection program, her safety depends on staying invisible -- and loving Adam could get her killed. Hidden away in the witness protection program, she's falling in love with former pro football player Adam Black. FBI agent Dave Richman has his hands full keeping her safe from her sister's killer. When events bring Sara face-to-face with terror, will she rely on God for protection....
3) Rascal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's determination to clear his mentor's name-and find the inspiration for his next bestseller August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. Thirty-three...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer and carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen. In this autobiographical, coming-of-age memoir, Paulsen tells the raw truth of a boy's first summer on his own, "as real, ' he says, "as I can see it." An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Twain's firsthand portrait of the steamboat age and the science of riverboat piloting recalls the history of the Mississippi River, from its discovery by Europeans to the writer's own time." *** "Mark Twain's famous account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and his own experiences as a pilot. Its historical sketches, its frequent passages of vivid description, and its humorous episodes combine to make [this] a masterpiece of the...
14) The Paris wife
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art"--
"...How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities...
16) Visions of Cody
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill Book Company
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Kerouac's ultimate account of his voyages with Neal Cassady.
17) The dark half
Author
Language
English
Description
After thirteen years of international bestseller stardom with his works of violent crime fiction, author George Stark is officially declared dead--revealed by a national magazine to have been killed at the hands of the man who created him: the once well-regarded but now obscure writer Thad Beaumont. Thad's even gone so far as to stage a mock burial of his wildly successful pseudonym, complete with tombstone and the epitaph "Not a Very Nice Guy." Although...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
19) Big Sur
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to heal from the deterioration caused by the pressures of sudden fame and too much alcohol, famous Beat author Jack Kerouac escapes to an isolated, mist-shrouded cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. Instead of finding the peace he desires, he is foiled once again by his own inner demons and sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness.