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"Summoned back to the New Orleans home she fled nearly twenty years earlier to attend her father's funeral, Jillian is drawn into the lives of the eccentric residents of her grandmother's apartment house and the mystery of strange messages and relics that have been appearing on the steps."--
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Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
4) Fire star
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Last dragon chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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While on a research trip to the Arctic, Chris begins writing a story about bears, dragons and a mysterious fire star, only to realize that his tale is coming alive and is populated by an old adversary out to destroy his world forever.
5) Open house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite...
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American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 2
American girl.Kit volume 02
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 2
American girl 1934 volume 02
American girl.Kit volume 02
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 2
American girl 1934 volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 4
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl.Kit volume 04
American girl 1934 volume 04
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 4
American girl.Kit volume 04
American girl 1934 volume 04
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.
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English
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When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...
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English
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It is 1922, and london is tense. ex-service-men are disilusioned; the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. in south london, in a genteel champion hill villa-a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants-life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow mrs. wray and her spinster daughter, frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. little do the wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course...
10) Icefire
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Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 3
American girl.Kit volume 03
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 3
American girl 1934 volume 03
American girl.Kit volume 03
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 3
American girl 1934 volume 03
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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In 1934, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.
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English
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It is the autumn of 1920 and Leah Breckenridge is desperate to find a way to provide for her young daughter. After losing her husband and infant son in an accident, she is angry at God and fearful about the future. Finding refuge in a boardinghouse run by her late husband's aunt, Leah's heart begins the slow process of mending. Is it the people who surround her--or perhaps this very house--that reach into her heart with healing? As Leah finds peace...
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American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 5
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 5
American girl.Kit volume 05
American girl 1934 volume 05
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 5
American girl.Kit volume 05
American girl 1934 volume 05
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
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English
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Eight-year-old Lucy Turnbull knew better than to wish for a pony that Christmas in 1937. Her mother had assured her in no uncertain terms that asking for a pony was the same as asking for the moon. Besides, the only extra mouths they needed at their boarding house were the paying kind. But when an interesting pair of strangers comes to town, Lucy starts to believe her Christmas wishes might just come true after all.
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Series
Mirette books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
16) Refining Emma
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Candlewood trilogy volume 2
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English
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When tragety befalls the village of Candlewood, Emma Garrett graciously opens the doors of her boardinghouse to those in need. but two guests seem unsuitable, what can she do? Turn the other cheek?
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English
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The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor-even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her lawyer boyfriend Todd, is desperate. The owner of a struggling art gallery, and suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse, Francesca does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an...
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English
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With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but fading family home turned boardinghouse.
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Series
American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
American girl.Kit volume 06
American girl 1934 volume 06
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
American girl.Kit volume 06
American girl 1934 volume 06
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
20) A time to bloom
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English
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"Will their dreams fall apart when confronted with all that is stacked against them? Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching...
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