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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Language
English
Description
With her frayed jeans and cascade of tousled dark hair, Lynn Shaw looks more like one of the teenage residents of Horizon House than their counselor. So it’s no wonder State Senator Erik Gunther mistakes her for one. Not that he exactly fits the description of a politician, with his movie-star looks and athletic build. Even Lynn, cynical, stubborn, and decidedly not looking for a relationship, can’t ignore her body’s response to...
3) Edgedancer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 2.5
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting...
Author
Publisher
Authorhouse
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The author captures the distinctive flavor of the life of a young girl who risks the jeers and snide remarks from her sister to pilot her family to The Money Tree. Most extraordinary of all is Tyra's disability which drastically attests that what seems to be the powerless in our midst may just be strength that is carefully masked.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O'Shea's debut feature THE TRANSFIGURATION follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo's dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, THE TRANSFIGURATION is an atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
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Series
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl
When Wayne and Kelly Maines...
Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl
When Wayne and Kelly Maines...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The author details what led him to undergo gender reassignment surgery as a high school junior, sharing the challenges he faced as a girl, the changes he experienced once his transition began, and his relationship with a transgender woman.
Author
Publisher
B & H Pub./Lifeway Research
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents new social, economic, and spiritual findings on the Millennials--youth born between 1980 and 2000--based on direct interviews with 1,200 members of the generation and reported from a Christian worldview perspective.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"1987. The only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into...
Author
Publisher
Gotham
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the year of Wendy Burden's birth, the Burdens had become a clan of overfunded, quirky and brainy, steadfastly chauvinistic, and ultimately doomed bluebloods on the verge of financial and moral decline-and were rarely seen not holding a drink. In Dead End Gene Pool, Wendy invites listeners to...
15) Hope's journey
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect worlds of Sydney and Alex, high school sweethearts on the brink of graduation, come crashing down around them when they learn that Sydney is pregnant. They face separate journeys of self-discovery and loneliness as they try to rebuild their individual lives and shattered dreams.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but
...20) Piles of pets
Author
Series
Pee Wee Scouts volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To earn a badge during "Be Kind to Animals Week," Molly opens her house to a variety of needy creatures, but must then ask the Pee Wee Scouts to help her find permanent homes for her temporary pets. Includes facts about some endangered species and what children can do to help save them.
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