Wendy Dillon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked... but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all -- the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness...But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A stray puppy named Squirrel relates her life story, beginning with her nurturing mother; providing details of her experiences with both nice and mean humans, busy highways, and the seasons; and ending with her meeting two friends.
Author
Series
Hot Flash Club volume 2
Language
English
Description
Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia depend on friends, wine, and chocolate for support when forced to deal with a wealth of family problems, including Polly's new daughter-in-law, the ever-present ex-girlfriend of Beth's new beau, Carolyn's late-in-life pregnancy and her father's marriage to a younger woman, and the manipulative child of Julia's widowed boyfriend.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage, dubbed Grace & Favor. The convalescent home is full of colorful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips into a coma and dies. No one is surprised at his passing-until it's revealed that he's been murdered. And Mr. Connor...