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2) Strike zone
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old pitcher Nick Garcia dreams of winning the Little League MVP and throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium. But he also dreams of a world where his sister can be cured of lupus and his undocumented parents don't have to live in fear of the government. Then his worst fears come to pass and they affect his fastball. Fortunately, an unlikely hero steps in just in time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior...
4) Babe
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Discussion by judges and court officers about the project for parties involved in domestic relations cases to meet outside the court room to work out differences early in the process. A two person team one a mental health professional and one legal professional meets with the family. The team gives them a realistic expectation of what would happen in a court case. This helps the people make the decisions themselves. People are happier with the results...
7) Plainsong
Series
Description
A heartbroken husband has been abandoned by his wife with two boys to raise. His sympathetic colleague cares for her ailing father. A pregnant high school girl is thrown out of her house with nowhere to go. A couple of bachelors set in their ways face a life-altering challenge. Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven. With courage and tenacity, they redefine their lives, ease each...
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On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads,...
9) The Namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
Series
Last man standing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Tim Allen returns ... as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standing, a show about everything that families in America are dealing with today - all filtered through the blunt 'man's man' comedy of an iconic American character ..."--Cover.
12) The whale
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
13) The Color Purple
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
14) Charlotte's web
Pub. Date
1972
Description
The 1973 animated adaptation of E.B. White's tale of Wilber the pig and his friendship with a literate spider, Charlotte, who saves Wilber's life with some fancy web work.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All that Chuck...
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1st film
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life, middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
18) The humans
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare