HiLo Books

High Interest, Low Reading Level Books for Adults

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Series:
Bluford series volume 1.
Description:
Darcy Wills is in big trouble. And she doesn't know where to turn for help. First a mysterious stranger started following her. Then there was a threatening note left on her desk. Now her sister has disappeared. Darcy has to save her sister and her fragile family before it's too late!
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"A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--
Book cover for "The emperor of any place"
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Description:
When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.
Book cover for "Dear Rachel Maddow"
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Description:
Brynn Harper writes unsent e-mails to her favorite news anchor as she deals with a breakup with her first girlfriend, her parents' dysfunctions, and the death of her older brother.
Book cover for "When we make it"
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Description:
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
Book cover for "The owls have come to take us away"
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After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
Book cover for "Fresh ink"
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Description:
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
Book cover for "All our yesterdays"
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"Em must travel back in time to prevent a catastrophic time machine from ever being invented, while Marina battles to prevent the murder of the boy she loves"--