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1) Dubliners
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
3) The poet X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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“This gorgeously rendered graphic-novel version provides a new perspective for old fans but also acts as an immersive introduction for youngsters as well as any adult who somehow missed out on the iconic story set in Maycomb, Alabama.”--USA TodayA beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. "Shoot all the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Robert Dubois, an oil burner repairman from New Hampshire, goes to Florida to start a new life and becomes involved in smuggling illegal aliens. Vanise Dorsinville flees Haiti to join an uncle in Florida. Their fates become intertwined in a shattering climax.
8) Shatter me
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Juliette chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
10) Raybearer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Named one of the best books of the year by People Magazine, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and more!"Dazzling... All hail Raybearer." --Entertainment Weekly"One of the most exceptional YA fantasies of all time." --Buzzfeed "Brilliantly conceived fantasy." --People "An exquisitely detailed world." --PopSugarFans of Sabaa Tahir and Tomi Adeyemi won't want to miss...
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Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The New York Times #1 bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren that helps you understand the purpose of your life. As one of the best-selling nonfiction books in history, with more than 34 million copies sold, and more than 70 translations available, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it's the roadmap for your spiritual journey. A journey that will transform your life. Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father-a former high school teacher-is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention,...
13) Another Brooklyn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn,...
14) Ever the Brave
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The sequel to Ever the Hunted which Sarah J. Maas, New York Times- bestselling author of the Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses series called absolutely marvelous." After saving King Aodren with her newfound Channeler powers, Britta only wants to live a peaceful life in her childhood home. Unfortunately, saving the King has created a tether between them she cannot sever, no matter how much she'd like to, and now he's insisting on making...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior -- such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Recounts actor Sidney Poitier's public and private life as he broke racial barriers to launch a pioneering acting career playing characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition.
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Vampire diaries. Stefan's diaries volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Control or be controlled ... Stefan and Damon thought they knew evil. But nothing compares to Samuel, the ruthless vampire hell-bent on avenging Katherine's death by destroying the Salvatore brothers. Reeling from Samuel's latest attack, Stefan and Damon find help in the most unlikely of places-a secret coven of witches. Together they discover Samuel's plan is more sinister than they ever could have imagined. Their only hope is to stop him before...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin loses her father and is forced to move with her mother to her aunt and uncle's home in the Irish countryside, where she discovers a strange leather-bound book that contains handwritten entries--in Tamara's own script--that predict future events, but as Tamara tries to use this book as a tool to solve the mysteries around her, she learns that some pages are best left unturned.
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