Jennifer Niven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
Author
Series
Velva Jean novels volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.
Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their...
Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their...
Author
Series
Velva Jean novels volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Summer 1944, Paris, a secret mission, a dangerous passion—a spellbinding story you will never forget
After delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down, and only she and five agents survive. Now they are on the run for their lives.
As
...Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the efforts of a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack and her four male companions to colonize a remote, desolate Arctic island, the deaths of her associates, her struggle to survive, and her return to civilization.
7) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claudine Henry plans to attend college in the fall, pursue a career as an author, and experience sex for the first time, until her father announces that he and her mother are getting a divorce. After the divorce, she and her mother move to an island off the coast of Georgia to heal. There, Claudine meets Jeremiah Crew and tries to become sexually involved with him without falling in love and being hurt again." -- from cataloger.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st Gallery trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 322 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her memoir, Jennifer takes readers back to that thrilling, excruciating, amazing, unnerving, awkward, and unforgettable time - high school - when life's greatest problems revolved around saying and doing the right thing, wrestling with geometric theorems, fretting over a bad hair day, waiting for the weekend's parties, trying not to die of boredom, and dying to be noticed by the most popular boy in school. Unique yet undeniably universal, The...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The official NaNoWriMo handbook that inspires young people to tackle audacious goals and complete their creative projects.
Partly a how-to guide on the nitty-gritty of writing, partly a collection of inspiration to set (and meet) ambitious goals, Brave the Page is the go-to resource for middle-grade writers. Narrated in a fun, refreshingly kid-friendly voice, it champions NaNoWriMo's central mission that everyone's...
Partly a how-to guide on the nitty-gritty of writing, partly a collection of inspiration to set (and meet) ambitious goals, Brave the Page is the go-to resource for middle-grade writers. Narrated in a fun, refreshingly kid-friendly voice, it champions NaNoWriMo's central mission that everyone's...