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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
2003 edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he helps his father prepare to celebrate his mother's birthday, Froggy makes a big mess trying to do things his own way.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 37 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still looking for a place to hibernate, Papa Bear follows Baby Bear to a cruise ship, and winds up on a tropical island.
11) The other wife
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
William and Mary live in Wales and have been married sixty years with four children and five grandchildren. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both are strong believers in right and wrong. William and Olivia have been together twenty years and share a house in London, enjoying the theatre and restaurants and playing tennis every week. Only one of these stories can be true - but which one? This is the question that confronts clinical...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors have created a wonderful tale about the importance of doing things your own way and being true to your heart when it swells with wildness and joy.
13) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Instead of a trip with his son to Yellowstone, he is now taking his ashes. An unexpected twist of fate intertwines August with two extra passengers on his journey, two orphans with nowhere else to go.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader's parenting skills are tested as young Luke and Leia won't go to sleep. Can he calm them by reading a story featuring Han Solo, Yoda, Bobba Fett, and others as they each settle down for the night?
15) Small blessings
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his estranged soldier son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--during which a shocking act of violence ended his parents' idyllic Hollywood union--if he is going to help exonerate Danny.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Red Squirrel spends a day showing his father all of the wonderful things he can do, as he tries to guess why Daddy loves him.
19) Kid owner
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away.
20) The son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...