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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person,...
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person,...
4) Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
5) Mind's eye
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.
8) Verdi
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dió a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."-- P. 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
1940: Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, and her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to fun-chasing showgirls, a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it ultimately...
15) Digby
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learning about the family dog, Digby, helps a young child understand aging.
19) My grandpa
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An elderly grandfather bear and his adoring grandson share a special relationship.
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