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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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English
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Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.
3) Mostly sunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A social worker who was abandoned by her mother sets out to find the truth about her newest charge with the reluctant assistance of a handsome attorney.
Author
Series
Epitome Apartments volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Book one in a mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective is ambisexual Kinsey Millhone meets Canadian Lisbeth Salander. Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise world of sex, lies, and betrayal, to which they respond with irony, wit, intelligence (except for...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the leading figures of the Progressive era. This "pragmatic visionary," as Knight calls her, is best known as the creator of Hull House, a model settlement house offering training, shelter, and culture for Chicago's poor. Addams also involved herself in a long list of Progressive campaigns. Her rhetorical skills as both speaker and writer made her internationally recognized as a supporter of civil rights, woman suffrage,...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her during his periodic verbal furies. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids, until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A social worker living alone in a run-down house in the woods offers shelter to a young boy and a woman fleeing an abusive relationship before their lives are threatened by dangerous secrets.
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh,...
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Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister's things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family...
14) Girl, 11
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Karin Slaughter, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case only to unwittingly create new victims"--
15) A closer walk
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A closer walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A closer walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. For the film, more than 50 women, men, and young people...
16) E xia
Author
Series
Du xiao shuo volume 51
Publisher
Rui sheng wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Most people know Jane Addams (1860-1935) as the force behind Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States. She was also an ardent suffragist and civil rights activist, co-founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. But it was her work as a pacifist that put her in the international spotlight. Although many people labeled her "unpatriotic" for her pacifist activities,...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up to her eyeballs in grad school debt. Her social work...
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Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Nobel Prize winning woman who founded Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, and who championed public health, Women's Suffrage, the international peace movement, and helped found the NAACP. The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams is remembered for her work for justice and equality at Hull House and for her contributions to the Progressive movement. The story of Jane Addams provides...
20) Jane Addams
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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