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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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'Killers of the Flower Moon' Read-Alikes
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NYT - Crime and Punishment
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NYT - Crime and Punishment
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While Daniel H. Burnham builds the glittering 1893 Chicago World's Fair, a serial killer lures young women to a torture chamber.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A Rip in Heaven is jeanine Cummin's story of a night in April 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn't have been more wrong. Tom, his sister jeanine and their entire...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
7) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Explores what life is really like in contemporary small-town America, focusing on the people of Northampton, Massachusetts, to assess how individuals in a community transform a place into a home.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches...
15) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life
19) Killers of the flower moon: Adapted for young readers: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient...
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