Pat Conroy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Marine pilot Bull Meecham's stern and unyielding personality challenges his southern-bred gentle wife and his top athlete son to stand up and fight back against the hard knocks of life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir by the bestselling author of The Prince of Tides about his father--the inspiration for The Great Santini--and a reaffirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
While the publication of The Great Santini brought Conroy much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But in the final days of Don Conroy's life,...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer.
6) Beach music
Author
Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, who has been scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife's suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family's past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the...
Author
Publisher
Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A teacher recounts a year on Yamacraw Island, off the South Carolina coast, when he helped black children gain an awareness of themselves as well as the world around them.