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22) Of human bondage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
The story of a deformed youth whose handicap causes loneliness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conscientious supreme court clerk. The professionals who share his house. A minor slip-up.
Ben Addison, fresh from Yale Law, is a new clerk for one of the Supreme Court's most respected justices. But when he accidentally reveals the secret outcome of an upcoming decision, a blackmailer makes millions and Ben starts to sweat. Big time. He turns to his co-clerk, Lisa, and his housemates, Nathan, Eric, and Ober, for help. Washington's best and...
Ben Addison, fresh from Yale Law, is a new clerk for one of the Supreme Court's most respected justices. But when he accidentally reveals the secret outcome of an upcoming decision, a blackmailer makes millions and Ben starts to sweat. Big time. He turns to his co-clerk, Lisa, and his housemates, Nathan, Eric, and Ober, for help. Washington's best and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The author, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a teenager, describes her terrible experiences as one of the camp's few adolescent inmates and the miraculous twists of fate that enabled her to survive.
25) Kill me softly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.
26) The human body
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the workings of the separate systems that make up the human body.
27) Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the secrets of the Earth, answering questions about the what lies beneath the Earth's crust, why sea water is salty, what the ocean floor looks like, why Africa is splitting apart, and other topics.
28) Metro girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1999, c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Golding's classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature remains as provocative today as when it was first published. This beautiful new edition features French flaps and rough fronts, making it a must-have for fans of this seminal work.
32) Swamplandia!
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family.
"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times
Thirteen-year-old...
"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times
Thirteen-year-old...
33) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Slave
Description
"Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
34) Heartless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Professor Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not only about literature, but also about the social, political,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
38) Punching bag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
Author
Series
(Anita G.)Splintered novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Long hailed as one of the greatest adventure novels ever written, "The Three Musketeers" is the sweeping tale of love, loyalty and revenge in 19th century France.
When young d'Artagnan embarks for Paris to follow his dream of becoming a cadet in the King's guard, he is instructed by his father to brook no insult to his honor. Following this advice soon gets d'Artagnan in a world of trouble, as he is soon embroiled in a trio of duels with three...
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