Barbara Kingsolver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
6) Small wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Features essays on contemporary issues of world events and local news.