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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks like a routine case ... even boring. But business is slow and private investigator Kinsey Millhone has bills to pay. But it turns out not to be routine after all and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone. With over 7 million Oke books sold, this book is another memorable story in the Oke tradition.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"'J' is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, deceased. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. Five years ago, Jaffe's thirty-five-foot ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast. He'd left a note admitting he was bankrupt, with criminal indictment certain to follow. Just two months ago, California Fidelity had finally paid in full on his $500,000 insurance policy....
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter...
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"Jayber Crow, born in Goforth, Kentucky, orphaned at age ten, began his search as a "pre-ministerial student" at Pigeonville College." "Eventually, after the flood of 1937, Jayber becomes the barber of the small community of Port William, Kentucky. From behind that barber chair he lives out the questions that drove him from seminary and begins to accept the gifts of community that enclose his answers. The chair gives him a perfect perch from which...
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