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61) Stray: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots...
62) Learning to fall
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
63) The vine basket
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflinn Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Things aren't looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She is a member of the Uyghur tribe, a group oppressed by the Chinese government. She yearns to be in school, but she's needed on the family farm. The longer she's out of school, the more likely it is that she'll be sent off to a Chinese factory... perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American who buys one of her decorative baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three...
64) Wasted
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"If there's one person Jacob is never going to be like, it's his alcoholic father. But Jacob is brought face-to-face with his own addictions when his father ends up in the hospital"--Page 4 of cover.
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