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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel"--CIP summary of book.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.
4) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 6
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After trying to take Hamburgeragogoland, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Asher Hunting wants revenge. Specifically, he wants revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom and got off on a technicality. No one seems to think this is healthy, though, which is how he ends up in a bereavement group (well, bereavement groups. He goes to several.) It’s there he makes some unexpected friends: There’s Sloane, who lost her dad to cancer; Will, who lost his little brother to a different kind of cancer; and eighty-year-old Henry,...
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