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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honour.
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her aunt's family in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a few months before turning eighteen and starting college, Edie is torn between Sebastian, the boy next door, and playboy Henry.--
Mansfield, Massachusetts, is the last place seventeen-year-old Edie Price wants to spend her final summer before college. It's the home of wealthy suburban mothers and prima donnas like Edie's cousins, who are determined to distract her from her mother's death...
Author
Series
Practical magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted...
5) Conversion
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleen's high school, her small town of Danvers, Massachusetts, falls victim to rumors that lead to full-blown panic, and only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
6) The front
Author
Series
Winston Garano volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers.
7) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie McDonald turns himself in after killing his terminally-ill wife, and his cousin Cam, the chief of police, finds himself at odds with his own wife, Allie, over the ethics of the situation. Their marriage is further strained by the arrival of Mia, a new assistant at Allie's shop who captures Cam's attention.
8) Ethan Frome
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love for her vibrant young cousin, Mattie, who lives as a dependent in the Frome household. His feelings lead to a day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. Published in 1911, two years before Wharton divorced her...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged woman, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, returns to her small Massachusetts hometown for the funeral of the housekeeper who raised her and finds herself thrust into the lives of the people she left behind.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member...
12) Openly straight
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
13) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
14) Painted ladies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.
15) Immortal beloved
Author
Series
Immortal beloved novel volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
16) At risk
Author
Series
Winston Garano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Massachusetts state investigator Winston Garano is asked to solve a twenty-year-old murder case in Tennessee to make his boss who's running for governor look good but before he can start on the case, a violent attack changes everything.
17) Legacy
Author
Series
Legacy volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Stuck at a boarding school where her fellow students seem to despise her, Katy soon discovers that Whitfield, Massachusetts, is the place where her mother committed suicide under mysterious circumstances when Katy was a small child, and as dark forces begin to converge on Whitfield, it is up to Katy to unravel her family's many secrets to save the boy she loves and the town itself from destruction.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thirty-six-year-old single mother single mother recovering from a wrecked marriage jogs along the shores of Cape Cod and finds a half-buried bottle containing a love letter. Upon reading the touching, heartfelt words a man had written to his "darling Catherine" only three weeks earlier, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will change her life forever. As she boards a plane, her future is uncertain, yet brims with the promise of self-discovery...
20) Witch child
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
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