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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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For use in schools and libraries only. While jogging along the Cape Cod shore, a single mother recovering from a difficult divorce stumbles upon a bottle containing a love letter that sends her on an odyssey of self-discovery, renewal, and the possibility of new love.
3) Main Street
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The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.
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A novel powered by two characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
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So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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Morgan OKeefe feels trapped in a gilded cage. True, the thirty-year-old mother agreed to put her science career on hold to raise her young son while her husband pursued his high-powered job. But though Morgan loves many things about staying home with her child, she misses the thrill of working with her colleagues in the lab. Shes restless and in dire need of a change. Fed up with New York Citys hectic pace, Natalie Reynolds takes up her aunts offer...
7) Indelicacy
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"--
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Series
Calhoun chronicles volume 1
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An awkward misfit in an accomplished Boston family, Isadora Peabody yearns to escape her social isolation and sneaks aboard the Silver Swan, bound for Rio, leaving it all behind. Ryan Calhoun, too, had a good family name. But he'd purposely walked away from everything it afforded him. Driven by his quest to right an old wrong, the fiery, temperamental sea captain barely registers the meek young woman who comes aboard his ship. To the Swan's motley...
9) Wonder Boys
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Pittsburgh area college professor Michael Douglas faces a slew of crises as he struggles to complete the follow-up to his successful first novel. His wife has left him, his lover--the wife of his department's head--is pregnant, a student boarder is in love with him, and a troubled young writer sees Douglas as a mentor.
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Pub. Date
2014
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"Casey's feeling empowered as she prepares to graduate from high school. But her quick tongue and rebellious nature become her downfall as she's swallowed up into the Cobalt Domain, another dimension full of ferocious creatures and an even more dangerous ruler. There are rules to survival in the Colbalt Domain, a place in which no one intends to end up and few ever escape" -- from back cover.
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
"...a novel of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious...
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2014.
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It was only meant to be a brief detour. But then Lauren finds herself trapped in a town called Lost on the edge of a desert, filled with things abandoned, broken and thrown away. And when she tries to escape, impassible dust storms and something unexplainable lead her back to Lost again and again. The residents she meets there tell her she's going to have to figure out just what she's missing--and what she's running from--before she can leave. So...
17) Fools
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.
18) Compromised
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 11
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With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.