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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Two pregnant teenagers -- one in privileged Newport, Rhode Island, one in a poor, remote Irish village -- have nothing in common except for the stunning fact that both are virgins. Private detective & former nun Anne Fitzgerald is called by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate & to watch over the girls as they come to term. But Anne hasn't been told the secret prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima known only to the Pope: one of these girls will give...
2) Mortal heart
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His fair assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Sisters is the first major history of the pivotal role played by nuns in the building of American society. Nuns were the first feminists, argues Fialka. They became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges.
In the 1800s nuns moved west with the frontier, often starting the first hospitals and schools in immigrant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Irreverent, foul-mouthed, seventeen-year-old Cricket Cherpin, living under the watchful eye of Mother Mary at a Catholic boys' home in Maine, has such bleak prospects he is considering suicide when Wynona Bidaban steps into his world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Homer Smith, a black ex-GI, encounters Mother Maria Marthe, the leader of a group of German-speaking nuns, and is soon playing a pivotal role in helping them realize their dream of building an adobe chapel in the desert.
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