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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
3) Fangirl
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Cath and Wren are twin sisters who grew up as Simon Snow fans. Wren is ready to let go of fandom while Cath is not quite sure if she can make it in college and life without her sister's help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork by Chabon. It is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material by Chabon.
5) Envy
Author
Language
English
Description
New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed, captivated by an unsolicited manuscript, goes in search of the novel's author and becomes caught up in his tale of betrayal and murder--a story that she begins to think is more truth than fiction.
6) Basket case
Author
Language
English
Description
Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, the mysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comeback album. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed with death since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yen for our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him.
8) Bluebeard
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
9) Mr. Fox
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding. The fairy tales that don't get more complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers -- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
Author
Language
English
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"Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling; June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls?, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's...
14) The hours
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
15) Wit's end
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking into her house to make her tell it. She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid...
17) The plot
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as...
18) The tenth circle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comic book artist Daniel Stone, once a violent youth and the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village, is now a loving, stay-at-home dad. After his 14-year-old daughter Trixie accuses her boyfriend of rape, Daniel must deal with the murderous rage he feels towards her assailant.
19) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
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