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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The second novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.
With a bit of last summer’s sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—embark on their second summer together.
Pants...
With a bit of last summer’s sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them—Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen—embark on their second summer together.
Pants...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's first summer in New York, describing how she meets Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte, and makes her first attempts at becoming a successful writer.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Three fourteen-year-old friends with very different interests befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Milla is never allowed to travel from the family farm to the village, and her only friend is her older brother, Niklas. When a bright-eyed girl named Iris comes to stay, Milla hopes they'll be friends. But the village is cursed by a demon who possesses girls at random, and the townspeople live in terror of who it will come for next. When the demon comes for Iris, she is captured and imprisoned with other possessed girls. Milla seeks to rescue her...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Virginia, Sabriya has her whole summer planned-- until a terrorist attack near her home. When the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim and Islamophobia grows, Sabriya turns to her online journal for comfort. When the blog goes viral, fellow Muslim teens around the country flock to it and find solace and a sense of community. Two more teens, Zakat in Georgia and Farah in California, join Bri to run You Truly Assumed. The three form a strong friendship,...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Izzy O'Neill knows exactly who she is--a loyal friend, an aspiring comedian, and a person who believes that milk shakes and Reese's peanut butter cups are major food groups. But after she's caught in a compromising position with the son of a politician, it seems like everyone around her is eager to give her a new label: slut. Izzy is certain that the whole thing will blow over and she can get back to worrying about how she doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"'You are my sister now,' Victoria said, quietly and solemnly. 'Never forget it. I love you like a sister, and you are my only friend in all the world.' Miss V. Conroy is good at keeping secrets. She likes to sit as quiet as a mouse, neat and discreet. But when her father sends her to Kensington Palace to become the companion to Princess Victoria, Miss V soon finds that she can no longer remain in the shadows. Miss V's father has devised a strict...
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