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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
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English
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This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
4) Fallout
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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After the death of her sister, Tara struggles to deal with her guilt through slam poetry.
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Language
English
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Description
Cynthia Riggs gives us the story of how Victoria Trumbell, the energetic nonagenarian amateur sleuth, first came to be a police deputy. While a conflict ensues between the town's retiring minister and his successor, both named Jack, four parishioners have unexpectedly died after being sent anonymous food baskets.
10) The poet's dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Teddy, a dog, leads siblings Nickel and Flora through a terrible snowstorm to shelter in a cabin, where he is flooded with memories of his deceased owner, the poet Sylvan.
12) The grammarians
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary.
13) Fly away
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
15) Defiance
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Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009, c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
16) The wasteland
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Language
English
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"In the midst of the roaring twenties, when an obscure bank clerk intervenes to save a man being badly beaten, he is thrust into a journey of self-discovery that leads him to the heights of literary fame, and the depths of personal sacrifice. The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot"--
18) Martyr!
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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Language
English
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"What happens when the drive to succeed professionally collides with ambitions of the heart? In The Lurking Place, James Eric Lowell, a young Black poet, strives to advance his career and extend his whirlwind romance with his white lover, Sophia, among other romantic interludes. Set in New York City and Mexico during 1968 - a time of political upheaval and social change - this cinematic page-turner captivates the reader with its richly drawn settings,...
20) The shadow girls
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Language
English
Description
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
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