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2) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made...Before the revolution,...
12) Cold Sassy tree
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
An fantasy-filled sailing trip through Chesapeake Bay, in the course of which a writer recounts his life. The novel is written in the form of an opera whose arias serve as vehicles for digressions which would otherwise have slowed down the narrative. By the author of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Many girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys. This biography, complete with charming illustrations, points out the differences between the fictional...
17) A man's place
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A semi-autobiographical novel follows the experiences of a successful but lonely, slightly overweight movie star who seeks to escape depression through a new romance and an Oscar-worthy role, only to discover the universe's alternative plans."--Provided by publisher.
Meet Jim Carrey. He's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege-- but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even getting fat? Nothing seems...
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