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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
2) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.
3) Identical
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--had happened and he had been left behind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"This is Noah Oakman, sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah gets hypnotized. Now Noah sees changes--inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten histories--in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Indulge in more scandal in the New York Times bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series as Crutis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory.
The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. While the...
The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. While the...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
Author
Series
Charlie Collier snoop for hire volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
The twelve-year-old private detective who sets up shop in his parents' garage solves more cases for fellow sixth-grade classmates.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her late grandmother, 13-year-old Nina spends a summer secretly doing good deeds for her neighbors and enjoying the changes she brings about, even as she's dealing with changing friendships and family issues.
13) The decision
Author
Series
Prairie state friends volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving from Pennsylvania, finding rewarding work, and leaving heartbreak behind is the best decision Jonah ever made. But is he ready to consider love again when he meets Elaine Schrock? Will his scarred heart mend when she chooses family loyalty over love?
14) Farewell summer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, "Dandelion Wine"--a sequel 50 years in the making.
16) Deceptions
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
19) Digging up love
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a dinosaur bone discovery brings together baker Alisha Blake and paleontologist Quentin Harris in her rural Illinois hometown, both Alisha and Quentin must weigh their future plans against their budding relationship.
20) Rituals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Olivia Taylor-Jones found out she was not actually the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers, her life exploded. Running from the fall-out, she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois, but she couldn't resist trying to dig out the truth about her birth parents' crimes. She began working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer...
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