Jenna Lamia
1) The help
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Emma Lane Cake has five brothers, four dogs, and a family that can't stay put. The Cake family travels from place to place, setting up bakeries in communities that need them. Then, just when Emma feels settled in with new friends ... they move again. Now the Cakes have come to Aurora County, and Emma has vowed that this time she is not going to get attached to anyone or anything. Why bother, if her father's only going to uproot her again? But fate...
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Twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are put into foster care after their mother dies. Just as they get settled, their father, Wade, appears and wants them back. But, Wade has signed away legal rights to his daughters, and the only way to get them back is to steal them. Brady Weller, the girls' guardian, begins looking for Wade and turns up information linking Wade to an armored car heist. Robert Pruitt, a shady man with a vendetta,...
5) Forever
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Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
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English
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In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing inches.
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2018.
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English
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"Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that...
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"National Best Seller People Pick Optioned by Sister Pictures for Television The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town's legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally best-selling author of Black-Eyed Susans "If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn...
8) Purity
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The most celebrated movie of the year is now the must-read novel of 2018. "[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and providing more expansive and involving story lines." Booklist. Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable...
11) Linger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.