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2) Bleak house
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Description
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections: between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has gained an immense readership for his Cork O'Connor series. In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood. A typical 13-year-old with a strong, loving family, Frank is devastated when a tragedy forces him to face the unthinkable--and to take on a maturity beyond his years.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Young Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian—and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange mound-building obsession of her Pawnee captor, Harriet sets off on a trek to find her father, only to meet with ever-stranger characters and...
8) Rebel heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After rescuing her twin brother from the Tonton, Saba experiences disturbing telepathic visions while being hunted by a cunning enemy.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
10) Long way gone
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Struggling with family problems but determined to make new friends after moving and missing Evie her best friend since childhood, Alex is attracted to Fred and he to her despite the jealous meddling of Fred's twin sister Adina.
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