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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: 10 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. Reader's Guide available.
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE...
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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...
4) 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
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
Author Birthdays - January
Edgar Award Winners
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
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan--known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell. In...
7) Killers of the flower moon: Adapted for young readers: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
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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"--
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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