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Author
Language
English
Description
For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. And they would have met, if Bean had not died shortly before Lillie. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer....
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island?s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island thousands of miles away. Who is Sabine? How can she "see" what Griffin is painting when they have never met? Is she a long-lost twin? A clairvoyant?...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Christian Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous benefactor offers to put Samantha Moore through school, with the stipulation that she write frequent letters to him on her progress, Sam finds safety in the letters as her program and her peers force her to confront her past.
68) So long a letter
Author
Series
African writers volume 248
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A novel on an eco-feminist, crusading for a better environment. She is Maya Greenwood, 38, and the novel describes her early lesbianism and drug taking, before she finds her vocation, building a people's park in San Francisco and protesting a nuclear test site in Nevada. By the author of The Fifth Sacred Thing.
70) My dearest Naomi
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Eugene Mast leaves his Amish community in Indiana to teach in Iowa, he also must leave his beloved Naomi Miller, so for the next nine months of the school term, Eugene and Naomi keep their romance alive through love letters.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently... Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play...
74) Brotherhood
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about cowardice and courage in the face of repression, from a powerful new voice of French-African literature. The imaginary country of Sumal is a happy place, until, that is, it's taken hostage by a fundamentalist jihadist organization called The Brotherhood. The populace quickly becomes locked in a climate of violence, falling under the control of the militias as they impose silence, terror and the most rigid moral laws. Prohibitions and...
Author
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and...
76) Whisper to me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal demons and family tragedy, and the bumps along the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and self-discovery.
77) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Contra lo que muchos creen, Frankenstein no es el monstruo creado de trozos de cadaveres, sino el doctor que hace esa horrenda creacion, que acaba volviendose contra su creador.
78) Dear Justyce
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the refrigerator door. When home is threatened by a crisis, their relationship experiences a momentous change. Forced to reevaluate the delicate balance between their personal lives and their bond as mother and daughter, Claire and...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
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