Elaina Erika Davis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The perfect life
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes.
The perfect lie
Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941--"a date which will live in infamy"--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered theSecond World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans...