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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely...
3) Green angel
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife,
6) Green witch
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observance. But even before the night of the celebration, İrem has started to change–due to her secret...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent. Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free...
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread - an evil that will threaten her children: two charming boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within the halls of this cursed house lives a shocking secret. A secret that will taint the Foxworth...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Katie copes with her grief by working in the garden of an old estate, where she becomes intrigued by the story of a reclusive millionaire, while her father, an art restorer, manages in his own way to come to terms with the death of his wife.
12) Stone garden
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book
"A wonderful and wise novel, a story told with unflinching courage and honesty, and with keen insight into the most universal of all conditions, the struggle of the human heart." - Ken Wells, author of Meely LeBauve
"Lyrical and honest....Moynahan has created a well-written story dealing with loss and coming of age reminiscent of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones." - Library Journal
A smart young woman making her...
13) Leota's garden
Author
Publisher
Tyndal House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Once Leota's garden was a place of beauty - where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn't understand her silent sacrifices. At eighty-four, Leota is alone; her beloved garden is in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless. She voices her despair to a loving...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
15) The garden
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.
Author
Series
The Company volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror....
THE LANGOLIERS
You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell.
SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer's worst nightmare.
THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN
You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid.
THE SUN DOG
You are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity.
You are in the hands of Stephen...
THE LANGOLIERS
You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell.
SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer's worst nightmare.
THE LIBRARY POLICEMAN
You are forced into a hunt for the most horrifying secret a small town ever hid.
THE SUN DOG
You are focusing in on a beast bent on shredding your sanity.
You are in the hands of Stephen...
18) 11th hour
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
19) Sever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
20) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.