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1) The namesake
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
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...
2) Afterworlds
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Mindi Vang steals the notebook that once belonged to his brother, and that he has filled with rash decisions on prom night, Sunny Gill, who doesn't look like a Sikh anymore, chases after her and has an unexpected all-night adventure filled with reckless, wonderful, romantic, stupid, life-changing decisions.