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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The ... story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just ... Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild, became an international bestseller ... and Sean Penn's ... film by the same name further skyrocketed Chris McCandless to global fame. But the real story of Chris's life and his journey has not yet been...
3) Hey, kiddo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives.
6) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Published to strong reviews and major media attention, this heartfelt and inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the highly regarded CEO of Parade Publications tells the emotional story of how he came to terms with an identity and a family that he never knew he had until he reached middle age.
Meant To Be begins when Anderson, a 21-year-old Marine returns from service to say goodbye to his dying father and tries to find the answer to a question that...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
When you were a child...-Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless?-Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?-Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?-Were you often frightened of your parents?-Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?Now that you're an adult...-Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?-Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright,...
14) disORDER
Author
Publisher
eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
""We're looking at a lot of serious charges here . . ." The state's attorney ran his fingers across the pages before him while reading the list of offenses Phil Hamman had committed. Hamman was headed down a dark road filled with violence, crime, and death. He was still reeling from a childhood spent with his dysfunctional family in an impoverished neighborhood where he faced bullies, met killers, learned to fist fight, and went home daily to a life...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fiancé is woefully depressed and Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes at his every effort at reconciliation. Margot and...
Series
Select editions large type volume 194
Publisher
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
Language
English
Description
Unwritten: When someone wants to be lost, a home tucked among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast is a good place to live. With a couple of decent boats and a deep knowledge of fishing, a man can get by without ever having to talk to another soul. It's a nice enough existence, until the one person who ties him to the world of the living, the reason he's still among them, even if only on the fringes, asks him for help. Father Steady Capri...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
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