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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for — and manages to find — something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
4) Snapper
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives a glitter-festooned truck, the Gypsy Moth, and he is in love with Lola, a woman so free-spirited and mysterious she can break a man’s heart with a sigh or a shrug. Around them swirls a remarkable cast of characters: the proprietor of Fast Eddie’s Burgers & Beer, the genius behind “Thong Thursdays”; Uncle Dart, a Texan who brings his swagger to Indiana with profound...
Author
Series
Illusions volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda-former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar....
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Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents. Now his uncle has gone missing, probably on a drug binge. It's Monday, and $800 in rent is due Friday. Riggle, who's been suspended from school, has to either find his uncle or get the money together himself. His mission exposes him to a motley group of Opioid locals--encounters by turns perplexing, harrowing, and heartening....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scholarship student from South Bend, Indiana, the relentlessly introspective and self-absorbed Lee has always regarded herself as an invisible outsider, "one of the mild, boring, peripheral girls." No wonder she's astonished when the most popular boy in class shows up in her bedroom one night, and they begin an increasingly intimate affair that lasts throughout their senior year. It's no surprise at all, however, that it should end badly.
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Series
Publisher
Editorial Oceano de Mexico
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robin es una chica que no encaja. Si, tiene su pandilla de amigos nerds (Kate, Dash y Milton), pero son realmente sus amigos o son solo las circunstancias las que los han llevado a estar juntos? A medida que Robin comienza a cuestionarse los convencionalismos de los adolescentes de su edad (tener novio, ir al baile de graduacion, vestir como las chicas populares...) y de la rigida sociedad de Hawkins, llega a la conclusion de que debe idear un plan....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.
Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed.
Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how...
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