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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her troubled parents start boarding the pampered horses of rich neighbors to make ends meet, Alice Winston is confronted by the power and security that wealth and class provide and is drawn into an adult world of secrets, lies, and cruelty.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
445 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Belsey family is multicultural as well as multinational. Howard is English, teaching art history at liberal Wellington College near Boston. His wife, Kiki, is from Florida, and as practical as her husband is intellectual. Although they love each other dearly, Howard's waning career and wandering eye have caused a strain. Their children follow their own paths: Jerome is a Christian; Zora is a socially concerned intellectual; and Levi is trying...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea—and his wife's eBay resale business—ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams. One morning Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled...
6) Brave story
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 43
Physical Desc
816, [1] p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy, who's family life is a mess, navigates the magical world of Vision and learns, among other things, about determination, bravery, and faith.
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