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1) Home fire
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong...
2) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century. The dismal living and working conditions and sense of hopelessness prevalent among the impoverished workers is compared to the corruption of the rich. Upton aimed to make such "wage slavery" issues center-stage in the minds of the American public. Despite already being serialized, it was rejected as a
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Description
Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
Author
Series
Empire novels (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel "Empire," President Averell Torrent launches America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. When Captain Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures, he quickly runs afoul of Torrent and, while on the run, finds proof that Torrent orchestrated a presidential assassination.
7) The Innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill—but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses...
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"This special edition of A Clash of Kings--featuring twenty-two gorgeous, original black-and-white illustrations by Lauren K. Cannon--continues the series of anniversary releases of the iconic A Song of Ice and Fire novels that began with A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"One by one, members of the secret IRA splinter group known as the Sons of Erin are being murdered. The consequences are greater than anyone realizes. For in these actions lies the destruction of two governments--and the fall of the Irish peace process. Former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon and U.S. presidential aide Blake Johnson have been recruited to stop this unknown assassin whose motive--and identity--is unfathomable. Quickly, quietly, before all...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 206
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
12) Red rabbit
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with a powerful U.S. Congressman he admires, he soon learns that not everything in Washington, D.C. is as it appears.
Cameron Carter goes straight from high school in small-town California to a summer internship with powerful U.S. Congressman Billy Beck, whom he admires. Though he lacks connections and Beltway polish, he finds a friend and mentor in...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren't free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He's left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves--or use...
15) Deception point
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the find, the White House calls upon intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery...
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