Jenna Lamia
1) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
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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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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On Sarah Grimke's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, a Charleston slave, who is to be her handmaid. Follow their journey over the next thirty-five years as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Art & Artist Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
5) Purity
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Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
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...
8) Linger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
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.