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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recognized as one of Christie's cleverest mysteries in the highly popular Poirot series. It is sure to be a success with her many avid fans. A serial killer is on the loose, murdering his victims in alphabetical order, leaving an ABC Railway Guide beside each body ... and also playing a game with Hercule Poirot, alerting him in advance to the location of the murders, but Poirot always arrives too late. Intrigued by the psychopath's mind and methodology,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Parker Stanhope takes kissing lessons from the freshman across the street as part of her plan to get on the varsity soccer team, a relationship blossoms that threatens her popularity at school and must be kept secret from their feuding fathers.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010, ©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When one of their group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find it difficult to maintain their friendship as they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know all their past and present secrets.