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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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In 1946 Clanton, Mississippi, World War II hero Pete Banning calmly and inexplicably kills his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell, and refuses to defend his actions during the subsequent trial.
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippis favorite son, a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certain...
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
"One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country....
4) Blue diary
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past. His true nature has been locked away, as hidden as his real identity. But sometimes locks spring open, and the devastating truths of Ethan Ford's history shatter the small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike.
5) The fixer
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder....
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