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63) Babel Tower
Author
Series
Frederica Potter series volume 3
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1997, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child.
64) The desert crop
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Direct
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn, England, in the 1880's, so when Hector Stewart announces to his children, Daniel and Pattie, that he is to marry Moira Conelly, a "wealthy" distant relative, it is easy to discern his motive.
65) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
66) Mary underwater
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mary Murphy feels like she s drowning. Her violent father is home from prison, and the social worker is suspicious of her new bruises. But Mary doesn t want to be a victim anymore. She has a plan: build a real submarine, like the model she's been making with Kip Dwyer, the secretly sweet class clown.
Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after...
69) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Life in Middle School
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
Formats
Description
"Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richad Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive childhood. From tormenting his brother David to becoming himself the focus of his mother's wrath to his ultimate liberation--here is a horrifying glimpse at way existed behind closed doors at the Pelzer home.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A child called "It": The author's account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. The lost boy: The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"All Beth wants is for her tight-knit circle of friends--Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou--to stay together. With her family splintered and her future a question mark, these friends are all she has--even if she sometimes wonders if she truly fits in with them. Besides, she's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really feels about him, so friendship will have to be enough. Then Beth witnesses a private act of violence...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
After Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson has returned home to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home she’d carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, one of the community's highly respected doctors. But in the wake of this natural disaster, a more terrifying challenge emerges as Liam’s mental health spirals out of control, culminating in a violent attack at knifepoint, from which Alice is...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Dave Pelzer was beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting look at the horrors of child abuse and the determination of one child to survive against the odds.
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable,...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul,...
79) Una educación
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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Description
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
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