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1) Beloved
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
Author
Series
Sextant volume 32
Publisher
Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
4) Mothers who kill their children: understanding the acts of moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Language
English
Formats
8) Plain truth
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a dead baby under a pile of old blankets in Aaron Fisher's barn sets off a scandal in Amish country and an investigation that could implicate Fisher's eighteen-year-old daughter
14) Adam Bede
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl, with crime, remorse, and suffering as the consequences.
16) After
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
20) Prom mom
Author
Language
English
Description
Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom"-the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance-as long as she stays away from Joe,...