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3) Middlesex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated...
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English
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
Read Alikes for Educated
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
Read Alikes for Educated
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
7) Crank
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Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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A graphic novel adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, following the escapades of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger: four animal friends that live along a river in the English countryside.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Convicted and imprisoned because she was unwilling to name her partner in adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the remainder of her life. This unending public reminder of sin torments her days and haunts her soul. Four people will be destroyed by a complex web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them will reveal the truth behind the scarlet letter. This is a masterful exploration of man's unending struggle...
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Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Includes a study guide.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A hobbit named Bilbo Baggins sets out on a great adventure with Gandalf the wizard and some dwarves in order to kill a dragon and finds the One Ring of Power on the way.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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Language
English
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." —The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black
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English
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Tells the story of the gradual modernization of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
A celebration of the endless variety of life in the mythical village of Macondo chronicles the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of the small South American town.
15) The maze runner
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Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
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English
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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After suffering a blow to the head and awakening next to a dead body, intrepid private eye Stephanie Plum finds herself at the top of the Trenton police's suspect list, being shot at by mysterious masked thugs and searching for a missing ice cream vendor.
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English
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"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus,...
19) Into the wild
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
20) Twilight
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
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