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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a dark tale set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia between World War II and the 1960s that follows the experiences of tormented and violent individuals whose struggles culminate in the adult patterns of an orphaned son.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Inheriting her father's 7,000 acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, the author accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland, peeling back layers of the American story, the politics of food and the culture of the Great Plains.
Author
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
2010, c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of ten-year-old Lori Jean, abandoned by her father when she was just five years old, Lori Jean's world consists of a weak-willed mother and an alcoholic stepfather who can't keep a steady job. Yet Lori Jean is filled with the curiosity and hope common to all children. When Lori Jean uncovers her stepfather's secret, everything spins out of control and she pays the ultimate price for what she knows.
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