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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Told through creative language play, and with depth and whimsy, this picture book reminds readers of their own agency and the power they have to direct their own path. Marc Colagiovanni's lyrical text and Peter H. Reynolds's stunning art create an enduring message of strength and perseverance that is both universal and personal, and one that readers will be drawn to over and over again. This first of two new picture books created in collaboration...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
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Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, "Scout", returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming becomes bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
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She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge that she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing...
10) Junonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come. This unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway have been.
11) Say yes summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Before heading off to college in the fall, Rachel Walls decides to give in to the universe for the summer and say yes to everything, bringing her friendship, new experiences, and, if she lets her guard down, love.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes -- big or small -- in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves."--
14) Is was
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Takes a look at change, from the innocent and everyday to the gigantic and irreversible, as well as how some things remain the same.
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Formats
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
17) Little land
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"An environmental tale of land evolving over the millennia up to present day environmental changes, as well as the role one can take in caring for it"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.
20) Treeborne
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. She tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta's legacy through his art; of his wife Maybelle, who shook the town when she became its first female postmaster, then again when she died a sudden and mysterious death; of her lover Lee Malone, a black orchardist and musician harvesting from a land where...