Cassandra Campbell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
Author
Language
English
Description
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
4) Dear Edward
Author
Language
English
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Description
A 12-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.