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1) A tree grows in Brooklyn

Author

Smith, Betty

Series

Harper Perennial modern classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23

Language

English

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Read A-Likes for the Week of November 8, 2020

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith is a poignant and timeless coming-of-age novel that captures the essence of resilience and the pursuit of dreams amidst challenging circumstances. Set in the early 20th century in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the novel follows the life of Francie Nolan, a young girl with an unyielding spirit. At the heart of the narrative is a tree that grows in the courtyard of the Nolan family's tenement...

2) Their eyes were watching God

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

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Banned Books throughout American History
Best 20th century books
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 2

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Local Collection Book

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." —Zadie Smith

One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with

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3) Another Brooklyn: a novel

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

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"For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise...

4) The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

Author

Morris, Heather

Series

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
Top 10 Digital Downloads in 2019

Formats

Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller

Soon to be a Peacock Original Series

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.

"The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary

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5) The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

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Native American Heritage Month: Fiction

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Book, eBook, Kindle, Reference Book

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In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old...

6) Purple hibiscus

Author

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

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"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." -Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili...

7) South of Broad: a novel

Author

Conroy, Pat

Publisher

Nan A. Talese

Pub. Date

c2009

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29

Physical Desc

514 p. ; 25 cm.

Language

English

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-- South of Broad -- —The Dallas Morning News “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy’s fans.”—Associated Press

8) The Buddha in the attic

Author

Otsuka, Julie

Publisher

Anchor Books

Pub. Date

2012, c2011

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6

Physical Desc

129 pages ; 21 cm.

Language

English

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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

9) There there

Author

Orange, Tommy

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2018.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11

Physical Desc

294 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

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Native American Heritage Month: Fiction

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Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...

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1) A tree grows in Brooklyn

2) Their eyes were watching God

3) Another Brooklyn: a novel

4) The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

5) The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven

6) Purple hibiscus

7) South of Broad: a novel

8) The Buddha in the attic

9) There there

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