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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.
4) Kidnapped
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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After being kidnapped by his villainous and miserly uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes with the help of Jacobite fugitive Alan Breck and becomes involved in the struggle of Scottish Highlanders against English rule.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"the story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sent with their invalid mother to the rugged mountains of 1940 southwestern Virginia, Lou and her young brother Oz follow a relentless but critical legal battle while encountering prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith in their new home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly...
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
Oprah's Book Club Selection
The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended.
“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release...
Oprah's Book Club Selection
The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended.
“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In...
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A novel based on a true story follows a Russian woman who is forced by a concentration-camp commandant to become his lover and is subsquently sent to Siberia after being found guilty of collaborating with the enemy.
15) The thorn birds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
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"Beautiful....Compelling entertainment." —New York Times
One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.
The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
17) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
One of America’s greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel—the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America’s Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cather’s novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra...
Alexandra...
18) Carnegie's maid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.
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Series
World War I novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war.
By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of...
By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.
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