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1) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
2) Mr. Busy
Author
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by] Creative Education
Pub. Date
©1980
Description
Mr. Busy does not understand Mr. Slow's not wanting to rush.
Author
Description
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast-and died young. But her final scam-embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund-is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House-the place where Meredith engineered her final deception...
9) Poodlena
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Poodlena Pompadour, a perfectly-groomed pink poodle, discovers the joys of playing in a muddy dog park.
10) Crazy love you
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"Darkness is near when Ian is with Priss. Ian is a talented and successful graphic novelist, and Priss is trouble. Ian has met sweet, beautiful Megan, whose love makes him want to change for the better. But Priss doesn't like change. Change makes her angry. And when Priss is angry, terrible things begin to happen"--
12) Sneaky sheep
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Blossom and Rocky, two sneaky and not very bright sheep, keep trying to get away from the rest of the flock, in spite of the dangers they encounter.
13) Sit still
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Patrick has difficulty sitting still until his mother comes up with a plan to help him.
14) Black widow
Author
Formats
Description
Doc Ford's goddaughter pleads with him to help her out of a jam. An extortionist with a lurid videotape of her bachelorette party is threatening to ruin her imminent marriage. Despite getting paid, the blackmailer releases the tape anyway--and that's only the beginning of Doc's troubles.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's the night before Christmas, and Splat wonders if he's been a good enough cat this year to deserve a really big present. Just to make sure, he offers some last-minute help to his mom and, in typical Splat fashion, he messes up completely! That night Splat stays awake hoping to see Santa Claus. But when Splat misses him, he's sure his Christmas is ruined-along with his hopes for a really big present. . . . Everyone's favorite furry cat is back...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978
Description
A man who gained the world but lost his soul faces a critical midlife crisis in this suspenseful and inspiring novel about love and forgiveness. On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the fifty-five-year-old Pennsylvania powerbroker and business titan-a living example of the American Dream-lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize his wife and two adult...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live.
Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and...
20) A long way down
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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