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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Coming of Age Stories
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
2) Forever Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to communicate with the dead to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come,...
3) Eragon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Audiolibros
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Nevada Reading Week 2024: 8th - 12th grade
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
Author Birthdays - November
Nevada Reading Week 2024: 8th - 12th grade
Read-Alikes for 'The Empyrean' by Rebecca Yarros
Description
In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, and Korea. While in Paris Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Separated for long periods of time, their final...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
''This Top Five Classics edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS Includes: • More than 30 black and white and color illustrations • The original ending, included as an addendum at the end of the book • Author biography and bibliography • Introduction GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens's beloved, autobiographical tale of a poor boy haunted by a dark secret and harboring grand hopes for his future as a gentleman. Pip, the story's narrator, takes...
9) Crash pad
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young man who falls in love with an older woman finds out that she just uses him to get revenge on her neglectful husband.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that-really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the romantic adventures of mysterious orphan Tom Jones, a reckless yet personable young man, as he falls in love with the unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of a neighboring squire.
This is a funny, scandalous and picaresque tale of a young lad, reared by a magnanimous benefactor who becomes entangled in the life of an amorous 'Lady'. Tom Jones really loves Sophia but finds it hard to gain the happiness he desires through...
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Edgar Dinero, a misunderstood product of the slums of Puerto Rico, has the ambition to become something more. After falling for a girl that brings positivity to his life, will he succumb to the violence of the barrio, or listen to the beat of his heart?
19) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the course of Theo Decker's life after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all the while holding on to a tangible reminder of the day that he took from the rubble.
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