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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.
3) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she...
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of...
6) Yo!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful." --USA Today Yolanda García--Yo, for short--is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically everyone she knows, was a big success. Now she's basking in the spotlight while those "characters" find their very recognizable selves dangling in that same blinding light. But turnabout is fair play, and so here, Yolanda García's family...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after the death of enigmatic and celebrated author Scott Landon, his wife Lisey fields inquiries from academics and private collectors requesting his personal letters and unpublished works--if any exist. Then aother interested party makes contact by leaving a dead cat in her mailbox. And then the terrifying phone calls begin. Lisey's only escape comes in the strange fantasy world where her husband found his inspiration. Now she must struggle...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Susan Wittig Albert is the best-selling author of the China Bayles mysteries. In this cozy, she fictionalizes the adventures of acclaimed author Beatrix Potter. It's 1905, and to recover from the loss of her fiancé, Potter moves into a small farmhouse in Sawrey. Populated by colorful characters, both human and critter, her new life is full of promise. That is, until a villager dies, and murder is suspected. Now it's up to this amateur sleuth to find...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection. At thirty-two Kimberly Rossetti, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nationally best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert cleverly blends fact and fiction in this cozy mystery starring iconic author Beatrix Potter. The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix-when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers-lends her insights to the investigation.
11) The shining
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them, as they journey into a world in which old horrors come to life to destroy the living.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 20
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
14) The sea
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
16) One great lie
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte's dream of a summer writing workshop in Venice with her favorite author brings the chance to investigate the mysterious poet in her family's past, meet fascinating new people, and learn truths about her idol.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
18) Supermarket
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall--a.k.a. Logic. Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to...
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