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201) The wonderful
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction. It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you'd rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying a little more from anxiety...
203) Three weeks in Paris
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Four women who left a prestigious Paris art academy as enemies, return to celebrate the 85th birthday of a beloved teacher.
204) Stupid Boy
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Pub. Date
2015
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-- - NYT and USA Today bestselling author Lauren Hawkeye -- --
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Pub. Date
2019.
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In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed―or untoyed with―by anyone, especially not by their charismatic...
206) Crush
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Pub. Date
2015
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Going to college gives eighteen-year-old Trey Porter a chance to experience the world beyond rural Alabama and his overbearing family. After staying in a motel due to a housing error at the school, Trey's friend, Bryce, offers to let Trey stay with him. The fascination Trey feels with Bryce's gorgeous, glamorous, and somewhat outrageous boyfriend, Co-Co, catches him totally off guard, because Trey's never considered himself even remotely gay. At least...
207) The prince of tides
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
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In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the...
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
209) This is happiness
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of the living. But now, just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity, the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets for which...
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A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
212) Shifting tides
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Pub. Date
2016
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Angela always knew there was something different about herself. When she realizes she's really Adam, his whole life changes in ways he never expected. Adam comes out to his family during a vacation to Assateague Island. While he's trying to explain to his parents that he's not Angela anymore, they leave him there with the rest of his family. His aunt and uncle take him in to live with them and his cousin, Seth. Over the course of that summer, he also...
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Pub. Date
1999
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Seeger King is a senior in Execution, Texas, and he's caught between his girl and the boy of his dreams, a hunky wrestler who's a sophomore. With graduation approaching, Seeger has to come to terms with his life and his need for love, and how to express what's inside him
214) Alma presses play
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Alma's life is a constant of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and, at thirteen, she's halfway through becoming a woman. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents file for divorce, and just like that her childhood seems to be over. Among this world of confusing beginnings,...
215) A beholden heart
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Have you ever looked around at your life and thought to yourself, this can't be what the universe had planned for me? This thought enters my brain...Every. Single. Day. I have no clue what I'm supposed to be doing, but this isn't it. I don't want extraordinary. I've never wanted extraordinary. I just want normal...whatever that is. When I enrolled in Middleton High School, I was just looking to find some resemblance to the typical high school experience....
216) The healing: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino- American-Guatemalan who can't speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has already gotten her period except for you and your two besties. Manuela 'Mani' Semilla wants two things: to...
218) The dead house
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Told through journal entries, a psychotherapist's notes, court records, and more, relates the tale of Carly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death but released to Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a second personality or soul named Kaitlyn, and/or be possessed by a demon.
219) Halls of temptation
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Pub. Date
2005
Description
"Halls of Temptation is a heartfelt romance that traces the lives of two young women from their teenage years into adulthood, through the struggles of maturity, conflict and love. In the fall of 1992, amid the picturesque New Hampshire countryside, seventeen year old Lacey Dorshire begins her first and final year at The Knolls boarding school. As school beings, Lacey struggles to fit in and as the months progress those struggles become increasingly...
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