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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
2) Silent house
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Sarah finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house with no contact to the outside world, panic soon turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Gothic story of four siblings who, after the death of their father, are torn from a peaceful life and subjected to abuse resulting from a dark, family secret. Abandoned by their mother and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents' mansion, the children form their own family unit. But as the oldest boy and girl come of age, they are entrapped by their family's sordid past as they try to survive and escape...
Series
Criterion collection volume 398
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
The close relationship of a brother and sister destroys their family.
6) Nobel genes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
From the outside, fifteen-year-old Coley Sterling's life seems imperfect but normal, but for years she has buried her shame and guilt over a relationship that crossed the line and now that she has a chance at having a real boyfriend, Reece, the lies begin to unravel.
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