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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early entries in a narrative series about the Glasses, a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York. In the first story, Franny, a young college girl, arrives in New Haven (Yale) to be with her boyfriend for a football weekend, where they go to a café. The story is essentially an account of their talk. Franny is telling her boyfriend about...
3) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?
On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college,...
On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college,...
5) Fourth wing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
6) On a whim
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Katie Weldon series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Ever since high school, Katie has wondered what it would be like to be Rick Doyle's girlfriend. Is she about to find out? The swirl of her life catches her off balance when she receives an unexplained bouquet, an unexpected call from her mother and unhappy news about her beloved car, Baby Hummer. Rick's new roommate, Eli, complicates things by inviting Katie on a midnight jaunt to see a meteor shower. Under a canopy of stars Katie grasps a new view...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her--and she's forced to decide what her next move should be. Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening...
8) Dirty south
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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College is a big adjustment -- but not if you're Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she's the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya's the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus -- could things get any better? For Lark, the answer is yes. While she's flunking socially, life is one big episode of Everybody Loves Kenya -- and Lark barely gets a walk-on role. Kenya's too self-absorbed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Overview: The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn't real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic doesn't bring...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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After reliving the same day for months, eighteen-year-old Barrett reluctantly teams up with her nemesis Miles to escape the time loop, and soon finds herself falling for him, but what she does not know is what they will mean to each other if they finally make it to tomorrow.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Hallie Palmer is persuaded by her legal guardian Bernard to return home to Cosgrove, Ohio, after her first year of college to take up her job as groundskeeper and help him win back his lover Gil who is considering marriage, and her own problems take a backseat when she is drawn into the further dramas of Bernard's eccentric mother, her party-girl sister, and an ex-boyfriend.
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Katie Weldon series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Katie wonders if she was crazy to spontaneously fly off to Africa on a mission trip in Kenya. But as her life turns topsy-turvey, God might give her a glimpse into His will for her life. As her relationship with Eli begins to get serious, Katie is faced with unanswered questions from her past.
14) I promise
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Christy Miller and Todd Spencer are engaged at last! But now the wedding work begins. Todd's breezy view of life clashes with Christy's meticulous planning. The issues of when and where to get married seem obvious-- until everyone's expectations are compared. Then Aunt Marti, Mrs. I-Love-to-Plan-a-Party, jumps in, ready to lay siege over each wedding detail. It's enough to make anyone sing the wedding-bell blues. Meanwhile, Katie has some unanticipated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes...
16) Cum laude
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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They're here for a higher education . . .
and you won't believe how far they'll go. Dexter College is a small liberal arts college in the quiet town of Home, Maine. But it won't stay quiet for long with this group of freshmen. There's Shipley—blonde and beautiful, the object of envy and more than a little lust. Determined to assert herself and to shed her good-girl image, she buys cigarettes and condoms, because that's what every self-respecting...
and you won't believe how far they'll go. Dexter College is a small liberal arts college in the quiet town of Home, Maine. But it won't stay quiet for long with this group of freshmen. There's Shipley—blonde and beautiful, the object of envy and more than a little lust. Determined to assert herself and to shed her good-girl image, she buys cigarettes and condoms, because that's what every self-respecting...
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Beta Gamma Pi volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Between moving off campus, gearing up to pledge a sorority, and trying to keep her faith first, Hayden Grant is about to become one very busy Beta.
College sophomore Hayden Grant and her three roommates can't wait to join Beta Gamma Pi sorority. At least that's what Hayden thought-until Myra, Bridget and Chandra announce a change of plans. Can Hayden and her girls hold onto their friendship as they pursue different paths? And speaking of...
College sophomore Hayden Grant and her three roommates can't wait to join Beta Gamma Pi sorority. At least that's what Hayden thought-until Myra, Bridget and Chandra announce a change of plans. Can Hayden and her girls hold onto their friendship as they pursue different paths? And speaking of...
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Book of dust volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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"The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue's youth are long behind her--or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less...
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Katie Weldon series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Katie has every reason to smile at her future.
College graduation is almost here, and Katie is pretty sure she and Rick are ready to make plans for their future together.
Why does Eli keeps igniting thoughts of new adventures and spontaneity? His wild love for God challenges her and he seems to always be right there when she needs support. Katie reminds herself that Rick is one she's been waiting for. Rick can offer her stability and purpose.
The...
20) Girl on the line
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.