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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
2) East of Eden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Soon to be a streaming series!
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a tale playful, profound, and rife with mayhem and mischief―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't
...4) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher.
6) Squirm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
7) The son
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English
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Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
9) Seek
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.
10) Labyrinth
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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As he struggles to cope with his father's suicide and his mother's possible remarriage, fourteen-year-old Gregory is plagued by recurring dreams that make him question what is real.
12) Down river
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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13) The crossover
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Eos
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After a lonely childhood at the Lighthouse School for Boys, thirteen-year-old Simon learns that he is descended from a medieval dragonslayer, and that his father needs his help to face the last of these evil monsters.
17) I hunt killers
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Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
18) The road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against...
19) Taft
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English
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John Nickel, an African American blues musician managing a Memphis bar, hires a white brother and sister even though he knows they mean trouble, as he pines to be reunited with his son.
20) Cold skin
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Front Street
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
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