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Author
Series
Olive Kitteridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
4) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The revelation of a dark secret about Ethan Ford's true identity and his past threatens to turn a small Massachusetts town upside down as the truth shatters Monroe's small-town peace and tests the bonds between family and friends.
5) Eventide
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Douglas Spalding and his friends wage a sort of war against the elderly men of Green Town, Illinois in the unusually warm October of 1928. When Calvin C. Quartermain, an eighty-one-year-old bachelor decides to fight back, the boys steal the old men's chess pieces and destroy the town's clock in attempt to stop time and remain young forever.
7) Baker Towers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The decade following World War II becomes one of tragedy, excitement, and unexpected change for the five Novak children and the residents of their western Pennsylvania community of company houses, church festivals, and union squabbles.
8) The monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
9) Ulysses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Formats
Description
This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
10) Dandelion wine
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1959, 1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.
11) Middlesex
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
12) Freedom
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
14) The moon is down
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
15) In this mountain
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Restless with his retirement, Father Tim, accompanied by Cynthia, gears up for a year-long ministry across the state line, but a series of events sends shock waves throughout the town of Mitford and through Father Tim's faith.
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly,...
18) Over and under
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
19) Feels like home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Following the death of their father, seventeen-year-old Michelle's older brother--who had disappeared six years earlier--returns to their small Texas town where, with the help of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," the two siblings try to find a way to move beyond a past tragedy.
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 6
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sixth book in the Mitford series finds the community of Mitford awaiting the marriage of Father Tim and his bride-to-be, Cynthia.
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