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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's compelling tragicomedy that explores restraint—and lack thereof.
Who legislates morality?
The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay. He reactivates outdated draconian laws and aims his arrogant crosshairs at a young man whose fiancée is pregnant, sentencing him to death. Angelo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. "'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's comedy of mistaken romance, in which a shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a man in order to help woo a lover for a Duke, but with unexpected results. This edition includes a selection from Shakespeare's original source, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of the play.
7) Western wind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When her father disappears, leaving her in charge of her little brother, Eddie, Dee flees with him from Arizona to Canada, their birthplace and former home.
10) Rainbow Valley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne's and John Meredith's children.
11) Winter turning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family, unlike his sister Icicle, who has been raised to challenge IceWing queen--but now that Icicle has broken the truce and escaped from Jade Mountain Academy, so Winter, accompanied by his new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, embarks on his own quest to free his brother from the clutches of Queen Scarlet, and win the respect of his family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Five children discover a beautiful golden bird that grants wishes--and a magic carpet that takes them wherever they want to go. They have many exciting adventures, like a trip to a South Sea island...and they find buried treasure!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lily has grown closer to her thirteen-year-old brother Paul during the spring their family has spent on the Greek island Thasos, until the unpredictable behavior of another American boy disrupts their lives.
15) Iggy's world
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Iggy, who feels like an outsider in his famous family, starts his own podcast about his greatest interest, insects, but when his broadcasts become popular after he embarrasses his sister, his sister, who has a YouTube channel, decides to fight back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1320L
Language
English
Description
This is a classic tale of a house cursed through the centuries by a man hung for witchcraft, and haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, is now available in this special 150th anniversary edition that contains new supplementary material and a new afterword.
Author
Publisher
Black Sheep
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who still live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, bow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While...
18) In the woods
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
19) If I were a tree
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings imagine life as a tree, and envision what they would hear, feel, and see.
20) Trail of crumbs
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult novel, Greta and her twin brother are abandoned by their father and stepmother, and Greta struggles with the confusion and shame she feels after being raped."--
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