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1) My Ántonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
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The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart.
Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti comes home to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to come back, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. Returning means she must face everyone's questions, including those of her first love, Brian Riley, the only one who knows her...
3) My Antonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
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English
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The bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman returns with a delightfully wise and witty novel of two women constrained by choice. One has too little, the other too much.In the summer of 1959, 40-year-old Barbara Beeching, the married mother of two grown-up children, embarks on an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affair with a much younger man. Forty years later, 35-year-old Siena Grant, a successful television fashion...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initally devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land, takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realized that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
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