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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
Author
Series
Shadow children book volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
3) Chrysalis
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan volume 6
Language
English
Description
"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company--Chrysalis--whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live ... and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
Author
Series
Crazy rich Asians volume 1
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, Rebuilding the News traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online. As the business models of newspapers have collapsed, author C. W. Anderson chronicles how bloggers, citizen journalists, and social networks are implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism. Through a combination of local newsroom fieldwork, social-network analysis, and online archival research,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
8) 56 Days
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity...
9) Outlawed
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
10) The windup girl
Author
Publisher
Night Shade
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rose Metal Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two{u2014}texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday {u2014}Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in...
12) The testaments
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
13) The return
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War. Seventy years earlier, in the Ramirez family's cafe, Concha and Pablo's children relish an atmosphere of hope. Antonio is a serious young teacher, Ignacio a flamboyant matador, and Emilio a skilled musician. Their sister, Mercedes, is a spirited...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
17) Older brother
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them many opportunities. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The eldest son is a driver for an app-based car service, which comically puts him at odds with his father, whose...
