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1) Commonwealth

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Publication Date

2016

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"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...

2) Every soul a star

Author

Mass, Wendy, 1967-

Publication Date

2008

Lexile Measure

HL 740L

Summary

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Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.

3) Across five Aprils

Author

Publication Date

2001

Lexile Measure

1100L

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Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

4) Peak

Author

Smith, Roland, 1951-

Series

Peak Marcello Adventure volume 1
Peak volume 1

Publication Date

2007

Lexile Measure

760L

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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

5) Whiskey when we're dry

Author

Publication Date

2018

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In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose...

6) Turtles all the way down

Author

Green, John, 1977-

Publication Date

2017

Lexile Measure

840L

Summary

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It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

7) The moon and more

Author

Publication Date

2013

Lexile Measure

HL 710L

Summary

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"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."-- Provided by publisher.

8) Let's get lost

Author

Publication Date

2014

Summary

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During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.

9) The wish list

Author

Publication Date

2004

Lexile Measure

520L

Summary

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Orphan Meg Finn's soul becomes the object of a battle between the demonic and the divine after she is killed in an accidental explosion while attempting to rob an elderly manand arrives in the afterlife to find the tally on her good and evil deeds is dead even.

10) Calling my name

Author

Publication Date

2017

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"Taja Brown, growing up in a conservative and tightly knit African American family, battles family expectations to discover a sense of self and find her unique voice and purpose"-- Provided by publisher.

11) Wonder Woman: Warbringer

Author

Series

DC icons volume 1
DC Icons Series

Publication Date

2017

Lexile Measure

750L

Summary

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Diana, Princess of the Amazons, longs to prove herself to her warrior sisters. When the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal. Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer-- a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to...

12) The outside

Author

Series

The Hallowed One
Hallowed One volume 2

Publication Date

2013

Summary

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Kicked out of the safety of her Amish community, teenaged Katie must face the dangerous vampire-infested outside world.

13) M. C. Higgins, the great

Author

Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002

Publication Date

1974

Lexile Measure

560L

Summary

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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

14) Sure signs of crazy

Author

Harrington, Karen, 1967-

Publication Date

2013

Lexile Measure

750L

Summary

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Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.

15) Twisted

Author

Anderson, Laurie Halse

Series

Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

Publication Date

2007

Summary

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After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

16) Captains courageous

Author

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Series

TOR classic
Classic collection (Brilliance Audio (Firm))
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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Publication Date

1897

Lexile Measure

1020L

Summary

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Harvey Cheyne, the son of a millionaire, learns lessons about life, responsibility, determination, and self-reliance when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the life and hard work of his rescuers.

17) All the right stuff

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

Publication Date

2012

Lexile Measure

HL 810L

Summary

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The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

18) The problem with forever

Author

Armentrout, Jennifer L

Publication Date

2016

Lexile Measure

HL 630L

Summary

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Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...

19) Return to sender

Author

Publication Date

2024

Summary

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Brodie has three mysteries to solve--what actually happened to the mystical Adder Stone she was accused of stealing, who sent the love notes left behind in the Dead Letter Office, and how she lost her two best friends.-- Novelist Plus.

20) Au revoir, crazy European chick

Author

Schreiber, Joe, 1969-

Series

Perry & Gobi volume 1
Crazy European Chick

Publication Date

2011

Lexile Measure

800L

Summary

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Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.

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