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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who attains eternal yourh while only his portrait grows old, hidden away in a locked room. Despite the young man's disintegration into a life of crime, his face never reflects the moral decay.
4) Tangled
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
5) 13 gifts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Young army vet Michelle Sanderson returns to Blackberry Island Inn, the home she left long ago, to claim her inheritance and recover from war. But she finds Carly Williams, her former best friend, running the inn and the business on the verge of financial collapse. To save the inn, the two women must put aside their feelings and work together, but can they heal their past, too?
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 410 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Issy Randal is laid off from her desk job, she decides to open up her own little cafe. But she soon learns that her piece-of-cake plan will take all her courage and confectionary talent to avert disaster.
10) Tikkun Olam Ted
Author
Series
Publisher
Kar-Ben Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
For spending his days on such good deeds as recycling, feeding birds, working in the garden, and donating items to others, a young boy has earned the nickname, "Tikkun Olam Ted."
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
While learning the secret to a good life, a child says thank you for the natural world and for being loved, because a grateful heart is always happy.
13) The vulnerables
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This story about modern life and connection with others, including an adrift member of Gen Z and a feisty parrot named Eureka, reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of kindness can offer healing and hope.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing in the world like a wonderful friend. Friends are there to laugh with you and ready with a hug when you need one. Adventure friends and study friends. There are forever friends and brand new friends. In this book, celebrate ALL the marvelous ways to be a friend!"--
Author
Series
Book of Ember volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
16) Best of all
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.
17) Campfire Mallory
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
175 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-and-a-half-year-old Mallory's trepidation about going to sleepaway camp is multiplied when she and her best friend are assigned to different cabins, and a new "friend" seems determined to get Mallory in trouble.
18) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
180, 31 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
19) The hero
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
215 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite his father's rules and his own fear of the water, fourteen-year-old Jamie joins his older cousin in taking the raft they made out onto the river, where a tragic accident leads Jamie to make the most difficult decision of his life.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perc�e Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Perc�e Indians.