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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The teen-age son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's death.
6) House rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
7) Stormy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
An outlaw dog and a courageous boy fight for their lives against dangerous foes.
8) The hunter
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
9) Smooth talk
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Connie is a 15-year-od girl with two things on her mind, boys and how she looks, and she meets a man during the summer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the governor of the state of Washington asks him to investigate a snuff film found on her grandson's phone, J. P. Beaumont, no stranger to human depravity, is shocked by this horrific crime and discovers that this murder has much wider implications.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Senator Erik Gunther has come to defend a home for delinquent girls against locals who don't want it in their neighborhood. Lynn Shaw, the counselor at Horizon House, feels that the senator is there for a photo op and that's the last thing the girls or her heart need.
12) Angel Rodriguez
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The relationship between a school counselor and a troubled inner-city teen who acts out by stealing, fighting with his seemingly uncaring father, and undermining every opportunity he is given. His advisor tries to figure out how to save him from himself.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969]
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward romance of their own. Yet before either cuople can enjoy true happiness, life conspires against them, threatening to destroy their friendships completely.
15) Charmed
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Izzy's mother works far away and leaves Izzy at home, alone with Rob the Slob. Angry at her mother and trying to deal with school, friends and the attentions of charismatic Cody Dillon, Izzy finds her life swirling out of control. Coerced into putting out to help Cody, Izzy finds she is one in a long line of girls ensnared in prostitution, with no way to escape. Believing that her mother will come for her, Izzy manages to fight back and, when the...
16) The last trail
Author
Language
English
Description
After the American Revolution, Jonathan Zane becomes a celebrated scout on the frontier. His adventurous spirit and love of the wild lead him to Fort Henry, scene of countless Indian attacks, farmers have been murdered, women abducted, and cabins burned. Zane teams up with a legendary scout to mete out justice to Indians and inciting outlaws, and settlers begin to enjoy the lush Ohio Valley in peace. One pioneer hopes to end Zane's career as a tireless...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to understanding and forgiveness.
18) Longshot
Publisher
Spartan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers find that when life hands you curve balls, sometimes the best solution turns out to be a long shot!
19) Sonny's secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
The Pee Wee Scouts are going to be in a wedding and they have a special rehearsal. They can earn a special badge for manners at the wedding.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Shetler lives in a strict Old Order Amish district. His community hasn't embraced the technology common in other Amish communities, so they live without phones and keep food refrigerated with ice blocks. Lucas's family is intent on staying detached from the outside world. Natalie Collins is the furthest from Amish one can be. She's grown up with any convenience she could want but is carrying a past of pain and broken relationships with her...