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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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'Killers of the Flower Moon' Read-Alikes
Author Birthdays - January
Edgar Award Winners
NYT - Crime and Punishment
Author Birthdays - January
Edgar Award Winners
NYT - Crime and Punishment
Description
While Daniel H. Burnham builds the glittering 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a serial killer lures young women to a torture chamber.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches...
7) Hey, kiddo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Books for Aspiring Readers
Graphic Novels for Teens
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Books for Aspiring Readers
Graphic Novels for Teens
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Description
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
"The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents. In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an...
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