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1) Magisterium
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has succeeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
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Series
Firebird trilogy (Claudia Gray) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite's hands in the final installment of the Firebird trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parent's invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that the evil Triad Corporation plans to destroy hundreds of universes, using their ultimate weapon: another dimension's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Series
Crossing Ebenezer Creek volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.
8) Poplorica: a popular history of the fads, mavericks, inventions, and lore that shaped modern America
Author
Publisher
HarperResource
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan's history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas MacArthur, and Emperor Mitsushito helped shape this complex country.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Historian Carol Berkin's A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution is a rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future.
"Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.
Hetty...
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.
Hetty...
12) The end
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"The final battle ensues between Saint George's army of sickos and the army of London kids"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"This book discusses the history and current state of high-tech folding in the world of manufacturing and how it is informed by folding in the natural world. Readers meet the leading scientists and artists in the field, learn about the manufacturing applications of folding in aerospace and other fields, and where folding technology is going in the future."--
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1851 London identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions, but things get out of control when they fall in love with two hansome gentlemen.
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Series
Publisher
Lerner
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the many visits made by explorers, missionaries, businessmen, scientists, and others to Easter Island since the late 1600s and what they revealed about life on this remote Pacific island.
16) Steve Jobs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their...