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1) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the Haute.
3) The wish
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
1682. The king sends out an invitation to all the maidens in France: their presence is requested at a number of balls and events that will be held in honor of the dashing Prince Louis. Cinder manages to evade her stepmother and attend the ball, where she catches the eye of the handsome Prince Louis and his younger brother Auguste. Soon, as Cendrillon glows closer to Auguste, she will have to decide if she can bear losing the boy she loves in order...
Author
Series
This woven kingdom volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--