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1) The firm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert and Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray - doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail - already knew: You never get nothing for nothing.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Description
"In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including...
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
4) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
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
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From author Rachel McMillan comes a richly researched historical romance that takes place in post-World War II Europe and features espionage and a strong female lead. Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing's Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Her wartime marriage of convenience to Simon Barre, the eighth earl of Camden, granted her the independence she craved and saved his estate....
7) 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
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
9) Copyboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
11) The hope chest
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.
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