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Our Town
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 3.9. Author: Thornton Wilder. Key Award: Pulitzer Prize.
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wider's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
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New Policeman, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.1. Author: Kate Thompson. Key Award: Costa Book Award.
Who knows where the time goes? There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When J.J.'s mother says that what she really wants for her birthday is more time in her day, J.J. decides to find her some. But how can he find time for her, when he barely has enough time to keep up with school and his music? And where will he get time to find out if the shocking rumor is true—that his great-grandfather was a murderer? It seems as though J.J.'s given himself an impossible task. But then a neighbor reveals a secret to him—there is a place where time stands still. J.J. realizes he's the only person who can make the journey, but to do so he'll have to vanish from his own life. And when J.J. disappears from the village, enter the new policeman.
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Not the End of the World
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.3. Mature Content. Author: Geraldine McCaughrean. Key Award: Whitbread Award (Now called the Costa Award).
"The end of the world is a busy time if you mean to outlive it." So says Timna, sole daughter of Noah, as she and her family prepare to face the flood that will cleanse the Earth.
But during the forty days and nights before the waters recede, the inhabitants of the Ark experience more than just a simple boat ride. As events take a terrifying turn, and as lines between right and wrong increasingly blur, Timna must find it in her heart to question her father when no one else will.
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Undercover
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Interest: Grades: 4-8. Reading Level: 5.5. Author: Beth Kephart. Key Award: National Book Award nominee.
A lyrical story of Elisa’s finding her voice through the love notes she pens for her friends’ romantic endeavors, the emotional turmoil she feels while her parent’s relationship hangs in the balance.
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Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The
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Interest: Grades 6-8. Reading Level: 4.3. Author: Terry Pratchett. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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River Boy
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Interest: Grades: 6-8. Reading Level: 5.3. Author: Tim Bowler. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
Fifteen-year-old Jess's grandfather has just had a major heart attack, but he insists upon finishing his painting, River Boy. At first, Jess cannot understand why this painting is so important to her grandfather, especially since there doesn't seem to be any boy in it at all. But while swimming in the river herself, Jess begins to feel the presence of a strange boy. Could this be the same one her ailing grandfather struggles to paint? And if so, why has he returned?
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Twisted
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.3. Mature Content. Author: Laurie Halse Anderson. New York Times Bestseller.
High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe.
His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father’s boss’s daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy— and Tyler’s secret crush.
And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in school, in his family, and in the world.
Fans and new readers alike will be captured by the main character's (Tyler) pitchperfect, funny voice, the surprising narrative arc, and the thoughtful moral dilemmas that are at the heart of all of the author’s award-winning, widely read work.
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Of Mice and Men
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.5. Mature Content. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.
The tragic story of the complex bond between two migrant laborers in Central California. They are George Milton and Lennie Small, itinerant ranch hands who dream of one day owning a small farm. George acts as a father figure to Lennie, who is a very large, simpleminded man, calming him and helping to reign in his immense physical strength.
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Wicked Lovely
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.7. Author: Melissa Marr. New York Times Bestseller.
All teenagers have problems, but few of them can match those of Aislinn, who has the power to see faeries. Quite understandably, she wishes that she could share her friends' obliviousness and tries hard to avoid these invisible intruders. But one faery in particular refuses to leave her alone. Keenan the Summer King is convinced beyond all reasoning that Aislinn is the queen he has been seeking for nine centuries. What's a 21st-century girl to do when she's stalked by a suitor nobody else can see?
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48 Shades of Brown
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.9. Author: Nick Earls.
Australian teenager Dan Bancroft had a choice to make: go to Geneva with his parents for a year, or move into a house with his bass-playing aunt Jacq and her friend Naomi. He chose Jacq's place, and his life will never be the same. This action-packed and laugh-out-loud-funny novel navigates Dan's chaotic world of calculus, roommates, birds, and love.
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Old Man and the Sea, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 5.1. Author: Ernest Hemingway. Key Award: Pulitzer Prize.
An old Cuban fisherman triumphs over a giant marlin--only to have his prized catch literally eaten away by circling sharks.
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Just in Case
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 5.4. Mature Content. Author: Meg Rosoff. Key Award: Carnegie Medal.
Justin Case is convinced fate has in for him. And he's right. After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day.
With his imaginary dog Boy in tow, Justin struggles to fit into his new role and above all, to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner.
He's got to be prepared, just in case.
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Red Pony, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 6.1. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.
The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt, and the sun-drenched California earth told through four stories.
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Separate Peace, A
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Interest: Grades: 9-12. Reading Level: 6.9. Mature Content. Author: John Knowles.
Knowles' classic story of two friends at boarding school during World War II--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written about the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence--has been a consistent seller for more than 30 years.
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Pearl, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.1. Author: John Steinbeck. Key Award: Nobel Prize for author.
For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream--that wealth erases all problems--Steinbeck's classic illustrates the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
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Great Gatsby, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.3. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Many consider The Great Gatsby the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. First published in 1925, it is the timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby lives in the New York suburb of West Egg, where those with "new money" reside. Gatsby's mansion is right across the bay from the home of his wartime love, Daisy Buchanan, pictured always in white.
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Death Be Not Proud
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Interest: Grades: 9-12. Reading Level: 8.0. Mature Content. Author: John J. Gunther.
Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy.
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Man in the Iron Mask, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 10.2. Author: Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies..
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Mysterious Island, The
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 10.8. Author: Jules Verne.
With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ever see civilization again-especially when they're swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island.
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