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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
2) Demian
Author
Publisher
BN Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?" Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a troubled young man's struggle toward self-awareness. Initially published in Berlin in 1919, the novel met with instant critical acclaim, as well as great popular success among people seeking...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When a girl in the neighboring town of Ryme is found brutally murdered, the community seeks help from criminal psychologist Audrey Harte. The media wants Audrey's insight into the mind of a killer, and the school and parents hope she can help the students properly process the crime. But Audrey can't resist assisting her friend Detective Neve Graham in the quest to find the killer. A killer who seems willing do anything to avoid going to jail, even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1110L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Examines the types of discrimination that LGBTQ people experience while growing up in America. Discusses challenges in schools, workplaces, the health industry, housing, and the criminal justice system. Includes color photographs, discussion questions, sidebars, a list of key events and people, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Language
English
Description
In November 2021, an obscure email from the California Department of Education landed in Thomas Fuller's, inbox. The football team at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, a state-run school with only 168 high school students, was having an undefeated season. After years of covering wildfires, war, pandemic, and mass shootings, Fuller was captivated by the story about this deaf football team. It was uplifting. During the pandemic's gloom,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder.
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder...
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Language
English
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Description
A memoir of Nicole Lea Helget's childhood on a family farm in Minnesota. Helget layers vignettes to create a lyrical story of growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1980s, where her father suffers from alcoholism and her mother verges on insanity. The eldest of six daughters, Helget presents unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images that spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.
12) Lucky dog days
Author
Series
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pee Wee Scouts celebrate Help-a-Pet month by visiting an animal shelter and organizing a rummage sale to raise money for homeless cats and dogs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Maines were a middle-class, hard-working, politically conservative New England couple whose lives felt complete when they adopted identical twin sons. As toddlers, Jonas was the son Kelly and Wayne Maines expected, but Wyatt was only interested in girls' clothes and toys. By age five, this conflict was tearing Wyatt--and the family--apart. Today, Wyatt is Nicole. She and Jonas are now graduating from high school. This is the story of a journey...
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Language
English
Description
"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
Author
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
When Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, thought about writing an appreciation of his mother and a memoir of his life, he hesitated. How would mama feel about seeing her life in print? When he asked her, she told him, "Write it," especially since she had remained quiet about her life for 50 years. All Over but the Shoutin' tells the story of a woman who endures years of hardship and deprivation to raise her three sons. It is not a simple...
17) Wild bird
Author
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
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Language
English
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Description
1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must...
20) Lines of courage
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together.