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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless...
3) Fractured
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece—and "one of [Christian fiction's] most honored and talented writers" (Library Journal)—comes a heart-wrenching but uplifting story about a highly controversial topic.
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
5) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only...
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Language
English
Description
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
7) Take it back
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth? Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a brilliant legal career. But her decisions came at a high cost, and now, battling her own demons, she has exchanged her high profile career...
8) Salem Falls
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
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Language
English
Description
"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
10) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland heads to Montana to help his old friend Doc Voss battle a local mining company whose operations are devastating the community, unaware that one of his opponents is recent parolee Wyatt Dixon, a man with a deadly plan for Holland.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Description
"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
12) The tenth circle
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
After a beautiful television star is brutally raped and beaten in her apartment, an ambitious young woman in the District Attorney's office persistently attempts to get a conviction, knowing that if she gets a conviction in the case, she will become Bureau Chief.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
16) Asking for it
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A "mind-blowing, page-turning, unputdownable" novel (Elif Batuman) about the fifteen-year fallout from a poisonous high school rumor, exploring how stories from the past can come to define who we are. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." Back in 1999,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After narrowly escaping death, a teen struggles to come to terms with her guilt over the classmate who was raped and murdered instead.
Kyle texted five girls that day. Only Jamie was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed. On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But the unnamed narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future....
19) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
20) Echoes of Grace
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On the Texas-Mexico border, eighteen-year-old Grace's relationship with her older sister Mercy is fractured when Mercy's two-year-old son dies in an accident, bringing to the surface old family traumas and literal ghosts as the family struggles to heal.
Eagle Pass, Texas. Grace struggles to understand the "echoes" she inherited from her mother: visions which often distort her reality. One morning as her sister, Mercy, rushes off for work, a disturbing...
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