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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
3) Paradise
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Founded by descendants of free slaves as intent on isolating themselves from the outside world as it once was on rejecting them, is the patriarchal community of Ruby. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their murderous rage.
Author
Series
Tucker family volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
Author
Series
Plain and simple miracles volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a tornado strikes the farms surrounding Cody's Creek, Anna Schwartz's life is changed forever. She suffers a spinal cord injury and suddenly finds herself learning to live as a paraplegic. Three people--Chloe Roberts, Jacob Graber, and Ruth Schwartz--join forces to help Anna through her darkest days. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
His prospects improved by job opportunities at an Oklahoma plant where the world's largest bomber is being constructed, a disabled man earns the first comfortable income of his life and befriends a group of women who have had to leave their families behind to work at the plant.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A pregnant girl abandoned by her boyfriend hides in a Wal-Mart store, gives birth and becomes a celebrity as the mother of the Wal-Mart Baby. Help flows from everywhere as people jump on the publicity bandwagon, then the baby is kidnapped.
10) Unraveled
Author
Series
Intertwined volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a war brewing between the creatures of the dark and Aden at the center, he decides he is not just going to accept his destiny, but fight back with his friends by his side.
11) A reason to die
Author
Series
Perley Gates western volume 2
Language
English
Description
When his dying grandfather gives him clues to a buried fortune in gold, Perley Gates goes up against ruthless lowlifes, kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians in order to claim the treasure.
12) Letter from home
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Working at the local newspaper during the summer of 1944, Gretchen Gilman investigates the mysterious death of Faye Tatum, found dead in her own living room, supposedly murdered by her husband, a World War II veteran.
13) I will send rain
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As the famine of the early Dust Bowl years forces their neighbors to abandon their homesteads one by one, the Bells hang on to Mulehead and the only life they've known.
14) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
16) The hot kid
Author
Series
Carl Webster volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
17) To trust
Author
Series
A broken roads romance volume no. 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anxious to escape Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma, Dee Hooper eloped with the first man to propose, but after being dumped she returned home to her dysfunctional family and her best friend, Jack, who has always loved her.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the last months of high school, eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
19) Finding Becky
Author
Series
Winds across the prairie volume 3
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Rob Frankston has waited four years for Becky Haynes to come home, but she arrives back in Barton Creek newly graduated from college with an independent spirit that puzzles him. What's more, she is accompanied by Geoff Kensington, a recent acquaintance who is showing more than a passing interest in her. Becky is flattered and taken in by Geoff's attentions, but when strange accidents start happening around the town, Rob becomes suspicious. Believing...
20) Red River deep
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six years ago, one fight ended it all... And now Tracey Walker has bittersweet memories and a secret that she keeps close to her heart. A fresh start in a new town is just what she and her five-year-old son need to move on from the past. But when she discovers her old flame lives a few doors down from her, she's confronted with the urge to tell him everything." -- Amazon.
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