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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Parisa Naficy, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela Gonzales, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. Despite...
Author
Language
English
Description
Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Ruthie Mizrahi hasn't lived in America long, but it's finally starting to feel like home. In the months since she's arrived from Cuba, she's begun mastering English, has her first pair of go-go boots, and is her neighborhood's hopscotch queen. Then one night...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When her husband of 20 years left, Brandi Wilson's life and dreams shattered. Now a ministry leader and life coach, she tenderly and vulnerably shares her story, helping you confront the grief and heartache of divorce head-on. Through God's grace, you can endure the darkest seasons, grow from the pain, and find hope for renewed joy, peace, and redemption"--
8) The 57 bus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
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Language
English
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"A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage...
10) Project Namahana
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
""An enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil." -Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series Nothing stays hidden forever... Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers-and salvation-in the jungles of Kaua'i. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically-necessary corporate...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Renowned fake conservative pundit Stephen Colbert may have coined the word truthiness, but it's Greg Gutfeld, real conservative political pundit and host of the Fox News Channel's Red Eye, who has made a name for himself by unabashedly pronouncing the actual uncomfortable truthiness of life that is sure to shock the P.C. THE BIBLE OF UNSPEAKABLE TRUTHS is packed full of his most aggressive (and hilarious) rants, with each chapter devoted to a single...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beloved and bestselling memoirist Julie Klam examines everything from the curious world of online friendship to the intersection of friendship and motherhood. With a mix of brand-new and time-tested wisdom, she finds that friends really can grow up without growing apart, and that friendship is one of life's great, free sources of happiness.
15) Lou Reed: a life
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything...
Language
English
Description
A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. This volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy with a cold misses his friends and does not like the medicine he has to take, but feels better after his father brings some soup and a book they can share. Includes activity ideas for parents and children.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follow the antics of the Bundy family. Al is a misanthropic women's shoe salesman with a miserable life. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dimwitted and promiscuous.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
