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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century. Catherine Morland is destined to be the heroine of her own life story as she navigates friendships and romantic relationships, and as she learns to let go of childish notions of fantasy regarding the lives of others. Held from publication for more than a decade, this story was an instant success when it was...
2) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
“One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—San Francisco Chronicle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
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Language
English
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Description
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course to see what all the fuss is about, and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A moment of kindness is all it takes -- for an adventure, a friendship, and a happy ending -- and no one knows that better than the Disney Princesses! In this beautifully-illustrated hardcover storybook, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, Moana, and more fan-favorite Disney Princesses will encourage and inspire children ages 3 to 7 to follow their hearts and be as kind as a Disney Princess. Kids will learn to take turns and share like Rapunzel, listen patiently...
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Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
PICTURE BOOKS. A beautiful new cover to celebrate 25 years of making art an adventure! The stars in Vincent van Gogh's painting are so beautiful that Katie can't resist reaching in and taking one. But what will she do when all the other stars come tumbling out of the painting, too? Will Katie be able to catch the stars before the gallery guard notices they've floated away? The story has five favourite Van Gogh paintings: The Starry Night Noon Vincent's...
14) Earth colors
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She's back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card-stealing ex and pending grad school loans. Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries for an avid book collector. Jordan's first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play....
18) Izzy paints
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After Izzy visits an art museum in the big city, he becomes inspired to make his own art.
20) The third hotel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs,...
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