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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.
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[2022]
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"A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What does it mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a vast variety of luminaries--from Gary Soto to Nawal Nasrallah to Ying Ying Yu, from chefs to artists...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Television personality Bill O'Reilly shares stories of some of the mistakes he made growing up, and offers advice to young people on how to live an ethical life, discussing bullies, cheaters, sex, drugs, smoking, money, friends, and other topics.
6) 13 gifts
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Willow Falls series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
7) Blackout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
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Most people don't expect you to understand what we're going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don't expect you to care. And even if you care, they don't expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don't expect it to last. We do. Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, the authors weave together biblical insights, history, and modern examples to redefine the teen...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Patrice dreams of a first-class educatin, but right now, she's just got to survive the walk to school. As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.
14) Close to famous
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
18) Garden State
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Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not separated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths