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1) Love in the time of cholera

Author

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 29

Language

English

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The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.

2) Violeta: a novel

Author

Allende, Isabel

Language

English

Formats

Book, Playaway

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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the...

3) The Jumbies

Author

Baptiste, Tracey

Series

Jumbies

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2015

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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A spine-tingling tale rooted in Caribbean folklore about an ordinary girl who must use her extraordinary bravery--and a bit of magic--to save her island home from jumbies, the scary spirits that haunt the forest. Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into...