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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter, Francie, and their son, Neely, knew more than their fair share of the privations and sufferings that are the lot of a great city's poor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, a young girl is given a home by three black, beekeeping sisters. As she enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, she discovers a place where she can find the single thing her heart longs for most.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined sister,
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
During the height of the Great Depression, teen-ager Cassandra Mortmain retells the hilarious, everyday events of life in Suffolk. Although her family lives in a castle, they are completely broke and their home is in dire need of repair. However, over the next four years, Cassandra falls in love and the Mortmain's go through some serious changes.
6) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
7) Someone
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
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"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a...
11) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
14) Red at the bone
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child."--Provided...
16) The chosen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today.
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
17) A painted house
Author
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the author's own childhood in rural Arkansas, the story is narrated by a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.
19) Luster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage."--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threats of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation"--Dust jacket flap.
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