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1) Boonville
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English
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Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson-the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother-and Sarah McKay-a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"-search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century jumble of life the facts of sexuality, love, and death, and face the possibility of an existence without God, John and Sarah learn what happens when they...
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English
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In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe-a quest that yields both complex and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Having always been home schooled by her counter-culture mother, Evie has decided to spend her senior at the local public high school, an experience that challenges her preconceptions about friendship, boundaries, and power.
4) Family
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
5) Schooled
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
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English
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"As the globe's most successful super-dealer, Herman Gertsch spends his charmed life jetting between his galleries in Zurich, London and New York, fawned over by artists, curators, politicians and the uber-rich. As Herman's empire grows, nothing seems to get in his way, until he makes the calamitous decision to open a gallery in a rural English backwater. Here, Herman encounters John "Brother" Burn, a penniless hippy known as the slipperiest man in...
7) Arcadia
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English
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In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. They include Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit, born soon after the commune. Through Bit, Arcadia follows this romantic, rollicking, and tragic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and beyond....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.
9) Vineland
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English
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On California's fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the "Nixonian Reaction," still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily...
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My weird school volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It's Valentine's Day! And Mr. Louie, the hippie crossing guard, put a love potion in the water fountain. Now teachers are flirting with each other! Girls are asking boys out on dates! Will A.J. have to kiss Andrea? Not if he can help it. Yuck!
11) Revolutionaries
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In his second novel, the acclaimed author of The Sabotage Café leads us on a long, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond, as seen through the eyes of the revolution's poster child. Fred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy, for instance,...
16) Dogtag summer
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"Eva, la narradora, formaa parte--junto con sus amigas Bada y Pilzy--del underground cubano. Las tres creen firmemente que la vida siempre estará por encima de ideologías e intolerancias. Garcias a sus aventuras, el lector descubrirá el poco conocido rock cubano desde dentro; un rock perseguido y expulsado. Asistiremos a los enfrentamientos de los <> habaneros con sus acosadores y a la creación de una fuerza poderosa, oculta y liberadora: la Jipangá."--...