Aidan Chambers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 40
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A ninteen-year-old girl sets out to leave a record of her own life for her unborn daughter. She decides to write in the form of a pillow book, a collection of notebooks in which Cordelia records "impressions, daily events, poems, letters, stories, ideas" and much more.
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I saw a face, bloated, much larger than any face I'd ever seen before. It hung in the air above me, and there was no sign of a body, just the swollen truncated head. The eyes were sunk deep into their sockets. Thick stringy hair fell in tangled knots from the crown of the skull. The skin on the face was blotched with festering patches, as though it had been violently bruised. The lips were drawn wide and taut across the mouth, revealing the teeth...
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In this brand-new collection of short stories, Aidan Chambers explores moments of truth, when a character or an event suddenly reveals an often-surprising meaning: A girl loses her humanity when she takes a summer job as a theme-park character; a boy tries to save a girl from a fiery death, only to discover the same event happened one hundred years before. And the titular story, in which an innocent game takes a fatal turn, will haunt the reader for...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will submit to a series of interviews, which prove helpful to both men.