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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.
“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book Review
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy...
“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book Review
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy...
Author
Language
English
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
4) The dilemma
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a man suspects that his friend and business partner's wife is cheating on her spouse, he sets out to collect information and confront his friend about the affair.
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Language
English
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James...
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James...
7) Grown ups 2
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lenny decides to move his family back to his hometown to be closer to his friends and their families.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance.
When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1
13) Playing house
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a couple invites a friend to move into their new house to share expenses, the friend invites his new girlfriend to stay as well and she becomes obsessed with making the house into her own home.
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English
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During thirty years together as a famous comedy team, conniving comedian Rocky Carter and his straight man, Mose Sharp, a small-town boy from Iowa, have enjoyed a warm relationship, but when Rocky commits a desperate act of betrayal, their friendship is endangered.
15) The big finish
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly senior who would avoid a nursing home forges an unexpected bond with his estranged granddaughter, an abused young woman who is rapidly succumbing to the alcoholism that once painfully overshadowed his own life.
16) The change-up
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two friends who envy each other's lives wake up one morning to find they have switched bodies.
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.
20) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Best friends Lennie and George take a job at the Tyler Ranch in Depression era California, but their simple world is ripped apart by tragedy when there is an accidental death.
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