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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
Author
Language
English
Description
Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself --...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life.
5) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"An orphan living on the dangerous London streets, Oliver has no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape" -- Amazon.com
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A modern take on the classic coming-of-age novel, inspired by Anne of Green Gables In the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Andi Teran's captivating debut novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez has just blown her last chance with a foster family. It's a group home next-unless she agrees to leave East Los Angeles for a farm trainee...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When 11-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life, like her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition, Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The famous journey of Tom Sawyer's friend Huck Finn, along the Mississippi River.
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is also running away. Together, they travel by raft down the Mississippi, tumbling in and out of amazing adventures -- from a floating house to a funeral, a shipwreck to a circus -- and experience some of the strange ways of people in the Deep South.
13) Hora de brillar
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
La autora premiada de El odio que das regresa con una historia poderosa sobre hip hop, la libertad de expresión y la importancia de luchar por tus sueños, aunque la suerte parezca estar en tu contra. Bri quiere ser una de las mejores raperas de todos los tiempos....
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Russian boy soprano Vladimir Popov is touring Japan when he learns about Yutaka's amazing talent. He insists on meeting this new rival and hearing him sing, but when he watches a rehearsal of The Turn of the Screw, he doesn't mince words in telling Yutaka how he feels about the performance ... Will his encounter with Vladimir be a blow to Yutaka's confidence, or will it give him the strength to continue to press onward, in both the opera and school...
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