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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Thirty-five years ago, when "searching for America" was not yet the cliche it has since become, Steinbeck hit the highways with his French poodle, Charley. In a custom-built camper he named Rosinante after Don Quixote's steed, the two traveled the country--10,000 miles and 34 states. Their varied experiences comprise several slices of small-town, back-roads Americana. Steinbeck laments the rise of plastic-covered everything, the vacuousness of "sad...
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Language
English
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From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
4) Barrio boy
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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal"...
10) Roxaboxen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson assesses the damage to her Mississippi home while dealing with her husband's declining mental health. After a violent attack, she flees with her children and faces an epic battle -- emotional, psychological, spiritual, and legal -- for her children's welfare, for self-preservation, and ultimately, for redemption. -- Adapted from book jacket.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of...
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.
17) Romeo and Juliet
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Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Young Henry Fleming had always dreamt of performing heroic deeds in battle. But the reality, as a raw recruit in the Civil War, is a mental and physical torment. And as Henry fights inner battles with fear, self-doubt, and trauma throughout his first harrowing battle, he has no idea whether war will make him a coward, a hero -- or a man.
20) Iron cast
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
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Description
In 1919 Boston, best friends Corinne and Ada perform illegally as illusionists in an infamous gangster's nightclub, using their "afflicted" blood to con Boston's elite, until the law closes in.
Corinne and Ada are hemopaths; their "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art. The girls have been best friends ever since gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny's crowds, and...
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