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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author a "powerful and emotionally piercing" novel (The New York Times) set during the 1950 in West Virginia and Korea, that intertwines family secrets, war, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.
Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother,...
Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...
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English
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In the epic tradition of The English Patient, this gripping tale of love and betrayal is set in war-torn Hong Kong. It is 1942, and Will Trusdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, has fallen headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But when WWII strikes, Will is sent to an internment camp, while Trudy remains outside. Trudy is forced to form dangerous alliances with the head of the Japanese
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English
Description
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly...
8) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a former Negro League baseball player struggles to provide for his family.
9) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a former Negro League baseball player struggles to provide for his family.
10) Asteroid City
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
11) Asteroid City
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
12) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Publisher
The History Channel
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"It was the age of hip-swingers, jet-fighters, and Ike-likers. It saw the end of the scourge of polio and the dawn of the scourge of McCarthyism. Much of what we nostalgically revere - the foundations of our pop culture - arose in the fifties. This DVD collection explores the boom-time of the post-war decade when the sky was the limit and the Cold War chilled the planet."--History Channel website.
14) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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