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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A wonderful new novel from one of America's bestselling authors. Exploring the tensions between a local culture and a changing national political agenda; family arguments and love: an instant classic. Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
From Page to Screen: Part 2
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
From Page to Screen: Part 2
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
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"This gorgeously rendered graphic-novel version provides a new perspective for old fans but also acts as an immersive introduction for youngsters as well as any adult who somehow missed out on the iconic story set in Maycomb, Alabama."—USA Today
A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee's beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Adolescent Mick Kelly is attracted to freaks and outcasts; and her spiritual kinship with other social misfits, provides a haunting look into the abyss encountered by human beings in their attempts at love.
8) Sea change
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family home on Selkie Island, Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.
9) Kindred
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents expectations, and there she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems--because Reiko has a secret: in her mind her older sister, Mika, who died years ago, is always...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- United by bravery When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror--but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written...
12) Rogue lawyer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddie. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
15) Kindred
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
vi, 255 pages : chiefly illustrations, chiefly color ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the...
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