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1) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Antonia Shimerda, the destitute child of Bohemian immigrants, and Jim Burden, a native Virginian who, after being orphaned at the age of ten, is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. Jim goes to Harvard, becomes a traveling busnissman,a nd returns to Nebraska infrequently; Antonia elopes with a shiftless railroad conductor, comes home disgraced, and finds happiness with Anton Cuzak, a gentle farmer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
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The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork by Chabon. It is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material by Chabon
3) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant
4) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
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Michael Havelock is a US spy with a tortured past, who has finally found some happiness with a fellow spy, Jenna Karasova. Unfortunately, he is shown that Jenna is a double agent, and watches her die for her betrayal. Preparing to abandon his agent-life and retire to become a teacher, he catches a glimpse of Jenna, alive, at a chance meeting in Europe. The chase is on, as he tries to track down Jenna and figure out why she's alive, and who was deceiving...
10) Katerina's wish
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Complete in one volume! The Prairie Trilogy is a thematically linked series of three novels by Willa Cather. - O Pioneers!: Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant families are giving up at the turn of the twentieth century. - The Song of the Lark: Thea Kronborg is a piano teacher with a voice that came from the heavens. She seeks to use her gift, and in so...
12) The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 38
Appears on list
Description
The beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterwork by Chabon. It is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay and their quest to become American icons in the comic book world. Now with special bonus material by Chabon.
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