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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
3) Vinegar Hill
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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The hell on earth of living with one's inlaws. The protagonist is Ellen Grier whose husband decides for financial reasons that the whole family--there are two children--will live with his parents in a small town. In addition to the usual tensions such an arrangement creates, the wife has to watch her husband revert to mummy's little boy who behaves like a wimp before his domineering father
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....