Jodi Picoult
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...
2) Leaving time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
3) Mad honey
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Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. now, having left her father behind in Chicago, she dreams of art school, marries an ambitious doctor - and soon becomes a mother herself. Overwhelmed by the demands of having a family, Paige cannot forget her mother's absence and the shameful memories of her own past, which make her doubt both her ability to give and her sense of self-worth..."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"...Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"...As Alex helps Cassie become reaccustomed to her fairy-tale existence, fragments of her memory returns...Yet as Cassie settles into her glamour-filled life, uneasiness nags her. She senses there is something troubling and wild that she cannot remember, something that would alter the picture of her perfect marriage..."
Author
Language
English
Description
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
11) Mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Mercy is set in a small Massachusetts town where Cameron MacDonald, a modern incarnation of a Scottish laird, is the handsome, well-respected police chief. In spite of appearances, he's actually quite unhappy & emotionally ill-prepared for the arrival of two unsettling strangers: a long-forgotten cousin, Jamie, who is carrying the body of his adored wife, Maggie, in his truck, & Mia, a beautiful, penniless traveler seeking shelter for herself, her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.
13) Lone wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...
14) Keeping faith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When Faith, the seven-year-old daughter of divorced parents, suddenly begins talking to God--whom she claims is a woman--and effecting miraculous cures, she becomes the center of a controversy involving doctors, clergy, the media and a custody battle.
15) Plain truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When a dead infant is found in an Amish barn, Katie Fisher is accused of murder. Defense attorney ellie Hathaway is in town to visit an aunt, and takes Katie as a client.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
17) The tenth circle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life -- a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. . . and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family -- and herself -- seems to be a lie..."
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jodi Picoult tackles issues of race and privilege in this ebook original short story, a prequel to her upcoming novel Small Great Things. In “Shine,” the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and My Sister’s Keeper introduces readers to the unforgettable Ruth Brooks.
Today is Ruth’s first day of third grade at Dalton. The prestigious...
Today is Ruth’s first day of third grade at Dalton. The prestigious...
19) Change of heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
20) Handle with care
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance" (Stephen King).
Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they simply want a healthy baby. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe wanted the same but instead,...
Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they simply want a healthy baby. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe wanted the same but instead,...