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2) Out of reach
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
3) Skywatchers
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, a group of high school students in 1952 Monterey, California, are watching the skies for Russian planes when something very mysterious draws them together.
The year is 1952. The threat of invasion from the Soviet Union has people in a panic. Teddy, John, Caroline, Eleanor, Bunny, Frank, and Oscar are members of their high school's "Operation Skywatch" club, they, looking to the sky in an effort to protect the country...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by grief and guilt after his twin sister Grace's accidental death, seventeen-year-old Mark Santos is persuaded by his best friend to complete the "bucket list" from Grace's journal.