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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 p.
Language
English
Description
Four little friends in a maze find and enjoy some cheese, but when that cheese is gone, only Sniff and Scurry adapt and go searching for more while Hem and Haw wait for more cheese to appear. Includes a note to parents and discussion questions.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
4) Unsheltered
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a young girl discovers the magic in everyday transformations that take place around her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent.The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engagesordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
11) Two boys kissing
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Ember Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Craig and Harry are hoping to set the record for longest kiss.They are not a couple, but used to be. Avery and Ryan have only just met and are trying to figure out what happens next. Both of them worry that something will go wrong. These boys along with their friends and families, form a tapestry that will reveal love of all kinds: open and eager, tentative and cautious, pained and scared. Levithan has sewn together their lives into a redemptive whole....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, "That's a great title for a novel." It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about - the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing....
13) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the school year draws to an end, Gerry has a hard time finding her sparkle knowing that she will say goodbye to her teacher, Miss Pym, and class pet Houdini, plus start anew in a classroom where she may not be recognized as a very fairy princess.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
16) A winter grave
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
17) One summer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
19) Fly away
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...