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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?
3) My lobotomy
Author
Language
English
Description
A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve. Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. “In 1960,” he writes, “I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American...
19) Banned books for kids: reading lists and activities for teaching kids to read censored literature
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R & B legends. Emmett Ellis Jr. acquired his first real guitar, adopted the stage name "Bobby Rush" and started playing juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a teenager barely old enough to sneak through the door. He relocated to Chicago in the 1960s, and crafted his own distinct style of funky blues. And he hasn't stopped since. Here Rush shares eyewitness...
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