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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The Chinese immigrant experience, featuring a girl and her two brothers. The girl is a budding tap dancer, one brother is a weakling, the other a boxer who joins the U.S. Marines. The novel is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the years leading to World War II. The anti-Japanese hysteria is also seen through their eyes. A first novel.
11) Palomos
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
Español
Description
When young teen Antonio moves to a new neighborhood he falls in with a local group of kids on the corner, where they share dreams of fame and riches, and also learn hard lessons about life and death.
Una pandilla de muchachos se reune en una esquina. Antonio, un chico que empieza la adolescencia, recien llegado al barrio, ingresa al grupo, pero su capacidad de análisis, su inteligencia y valor lo diferencian del resto tanto ahí como en la escuela....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. On Christmas Eve Scrooge sits in his counting-house with not a kind word for a soul, just wanting to be left alone until the 'humbug' of Christmas is over. Four ghostly visitors (his partner Marley, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come) show him the error of his ways. By the time Christmas...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
15) Chesapeake blue
Author
Language
English
Description
Seth Quinn is finally home. Its been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love. Now a grown man he returns home from Europe as a successful painter. There have been manycchanges since he'd been gone--and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. In Seth she sees a challenge she...
16) The unsettled
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015
Language
English
Description
After John Harmon is murdered on his way to marry Bella Wilfer and receive a large inheritance, his father's assistant, Nicodemus Boffin, becomes the new heir and adopts Bella, who evokes an uncommon interest from Boffin's assistant.
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