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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Examines the fast-food industry and the changes it has made in American eating patterns while presenting a look at the modern meat-packing industry.
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here [the author] makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit,...
3) Empire falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned...
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned...
4) Linger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his older brother suddenly joins the army and is sent to the Persian Gulf, sixteen-year-old Gary begins to take a new look at the restaurant that has been the focal point of his family and their small Pennsylvania town.
5) Blessed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Even as teenaged Quincie Morris adjusts to her appetites as a neophyte vampire, she must clear her true love, the hybrid-werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the vampire-chef who "blessed" her; and keep her dead parents' restaurant up and running before she loses her own soul.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya, a high school senior bound for Stanford University, goes against her better judgement when she and a popular but somewhat disreputable boy start a profitable school-wide cheating ring in order to save her family's Thai restaurant, which she fears will be shut down due to her irresponsible actions.
9) Salem Falls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him again.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram, and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying summer internship, and to prove he has what it takes to become an editor on his school paper. Then Jocelyn's...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her traditional Mexican-American mom and dad have different plans. Xander Amaro Is a new hire at Nacho's. For him, the job is an opportunity...
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