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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
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The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh"--
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Heiligman draws on the letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime to weave a tale of two lives intertwined as Theo supported Vincent's struggles to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A story of love and loss across the color line, Brothers is a historian's quest to make sense of the life and death of his older brother, a mixed-race hip-hop artist and screenwriter, who was the victim of a racially charged attack"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that northbound tug. But when Ernesto ends up on the wrong side of the...
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