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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
3) The plague
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran
4) The road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
5) Beloved
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Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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-- People) Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard,...
7) The crossing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region's ranchers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 29
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends,...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him-- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
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