Melody Carlson
Author
Language
English
Description
Betty Kowalski isn't looking forward to the holidays. She just can't seem to find Christmas in her heart. There's church, of course. But who can she bake for these days? And who would care whether or not she put up the Christmas decorations? Her new neighbor just adds to the problem. He's doing home improvements that don't appear to be improving much of anything. These days when Betty looks out the window, she sees a beat-up truck, a pile of junk,...
2) River's song
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Following her mother's funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns to the home of her youth to sort out her parents' belongings, as well as her own turbulent life. For the first time since childhood, Anna embraces her native heritage, despite the disdain of her vicious mother-in-law. By transforming her old family home on the banks of the Siuslaw River into The Inn at Shining Waters, Anna hopes to create a place...
4) Mixed bags
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After a Winter Ball that was a mix of fun and worry, seventeen-year-old DJ sets aside her hope for a quiet Christmas and joins Taylor in Las Vegas, although she fears she will do nothing but try to keep her roommate out of trouble.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Mrs. Carter becomes increasingly distracted by General Harding, her boardinghouse girls find more opportunities to get into trouble, especially during a weekend getaway to a luxurious Vermont ski lodge, to which some of the girls have invited boys.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
DJ's efforts to make sense of Christianity, prayer, and the Bible only seem to make it harder for her to deal with the inability of the girls in her grandmother's boardinghouse to get along, especially after Taylor begins flirting with Rhiannon's boyfriend.
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.
9) River's End
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a young single mother runs away at sixteen, she and the child's grandmother fears the worst. However two years later the child returns, a mess and a shell of her former self. She has been stuck in a religious cult for two years, and has been brainwashed into thinking that she is not worthy of God's love. After an argument with her mother she runs off again, and it is up to her and the child's grandmother to find her daughter once...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.
14) The prom queen
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life gets more and more complicated for a high school girl who decides to do whatever it takes to be elected as prom queen"-- Provided by publisher.
16) The jerk magnet
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers have enjoyed Melody Carlson's Christmas novels for years. Now six of these beloved stories are available in two handsome value-priced 3-in-1 editions. The Joy of Christmas includes An Irish Christmas, The Christmas Dog, and All I Have to Give. The Treasure of Christmas includes The Christmas Bus, Angels in the Snow, and The Gift of Christmas Present. Perfect as gifts, these volumes will be cherished parts of the holiday season for years to...
18) The best friend
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When high school junior Lishia Vance goes from being surrounded by her friends one day to a social outcast the next, without explanation, she discovers the treacherous world of friendship, loyalty, and choices.
19) New York debut
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life at the Carter house is in an uproar, with Taylor coming home from rehab treatment, Kriti developing a possible eating disorder, and Eliza creating competition between the girls for the New York debut at Spring Fashion Week.