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1) 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
Language
English
Description
Barbara Ehrenreich describes how people over prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, she topples the shibboleths that guide people's attempts to live a long, healthy life, from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.
3) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
Author
Language
English
Description
Why do educated women get fewer responses on online dating websites? Is buying local food economically efficient? Does bribing kids improve their performance on school tests? Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the quirky geniuses behind "Freakonomics" are back at it. Here, for the first time, the very best of their more than 8,000 posts are together in a single place. It showcases the brilliance that has made Levitt and Dubner an international sensation,...
6) Monument 14
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen kids of varying ages find themselves trapped in a chain superstore, while outside, a series of escalating disasters occur including a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill.
Author
Series
Pack (Lisi Harrison) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Sadie thought joining the Pack would be the wildest thing to happen to her this year, but the school year is becoming even harder. On top of classes, Sadie has to navigate her growing feelings for her crush, taming her powers during cheer practice, and trouble-making hyenas trying to take her crown. Then there is the massive secret she is keeping from her BFF Lindsey--that could destroy their friendship and The Pack as they know it"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot-from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women-women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz...
10) The merciless
Author
Series
The merciless volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.
11) The Pack
Author
Series
Pack (Lisi Harrison) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Attending a boarding school for girls with animal powers, new girl Sadie joins the Pack-a group of 'it' girls-and is consumed by social drama until someone starts to threaten them in an attempt to tear the Pack apart"--
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.
13) Change: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When male students from Briarwood join the all-girl Octavian Country Day at the beginning of eighth grade, Massie makes a rule that none of the girls on the Pretty Committee can have anything to do with them, trying to protect the girls' social status.
15) Criminal destiny
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
16) The audition
Author
Series
Audition trilogy (Maddie Ziegler) volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
17) The callback
Author
Series
Audition trilogy (Maddie Ziegler) volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Harper McCoy, twelve, joins the school musical hoping to get past "dancer's block," but her Dance Starz teammates are not pleased, especially since they will soon compete against their biggest rivals, The Belles, in Regionals.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for people whose bodyminds signify more powerfully than their words.
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