Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times bestseller
From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters.
Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through...
From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters.
Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through...
3) Red Rising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface...
4) Howards End
Author
Language
English
Description
When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that leads to collision.
A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, tells the story of young Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, at the age of ten. As she grows up, she develops deep feelings for her cousin Edmund Bertram, the only person at Mansfield Park who shows her true kindness. When the Bertram family is thrown into scandal and disorder, Fanny and Edmund must overcome the chaos around them so they can come to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award
A New York Times Bestseller (Extended)
An LA Times Bestseller
A Northern California Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel...
A New York Times Bestseller (Extended)
An LA Times Bestseller
A Northern California Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
""Pride and Prejudice" is a 1813 romantic novel by seminal English author Jane Austen. The story revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, a 20-year-old English woman who, as she matures, must learn the difference between the superficial and the necessary. Elizabeth, her five sisters, and their father live on Longbourn estate, a large property that will not be inherited by any of his daughters when their father dies. Because of this, it is vital that at least...
9) The crown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eadlyn didn't think she would find a real partner among the Selection's thirty-five suitors, let alone true love. Sometimes the heart has a way of surprising, and now Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more difficult, and more important, than she ever expected.
11) Payment in blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The career of a playwright comes to an abupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an 18-inch dirk through her neck.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ireland, 1912, Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak...
14) Unspoken
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having left her hometown years before with her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead, Shelby Cole decides to return home when she begins to receive anonymous letters that claim that her daughter is alive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in the years before and after Waterloo, the novel tells the parallel stories of two schoolfriends - the quiet, long-suffering Amelia and her brilliant, scheming friend, Becky Sharp. The novel portrays all the corruption and decadence of 19th-century England.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request