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Forced to leave medical school in order to care for her young siblings after their mother is placed in a nursing home, Sara Elliott is thrust into the role of becoming a mother figure and finds her situation challenged by a love interest with questionable family ties and the reappearance of her long-lost brother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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820L
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"Chase has been reunited with his younger sister, Lilli. He doesn't remember his past, but Lilli does--she remembers their parents, and life before their planet was destroyed"--WorldCat.
3) Shadow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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640L
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During the summer when her older brothers' fighting escalates dangerously, thirteen-year-old Sarah becomes increasingly aware of her ability to sense things that others cannot, including the presence of her beloved dead cat.
6) The Unseen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
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"After an impulsive one-night stand with Jacob Stone, Teagan Hunter is appalled to discover he's a lawyer intent on suing her media mogul brother. They're done. But Jacob pursues the understated heiress...and Teagan is tempted. Could the powerhouse attorney be the one to give Teagan the new lease on life she desperately needs? Or is this a star-crossed scandal waiting to explode?" --
8) Island
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From one of Britain's best-kept secrets, the novelist whom the Independent said “writes better than almost anyone of her generation,” comes this brooding tale of the murderous ties that bind a mother and daughter. Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes, Nikki Black decides at twenty-eight to seek out her birth mother, intent on killing her. Nikki's vengeance takes her to a remote island off the coast of Scotland, where both the beaches...
9) Being Emily
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Things are never dull in the OConnell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interesting than Emily Brontes. But tragedy is not confined to Victorian novels. And life for Fiona in this happy domestic setup is about to change forever. Following the devastating events of a single day, her family can never be the same. But perhaps, new relationships...
10) Double agent
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DANGER IS HER ALIAS
As a spy, Sabine Laduca works alone. But when she investigates her brother's murder, she's forced into an uneasy alliance with his Delta Force team leader. The CIA taught Sabine to trust no one, and Sergeant Major Doug Richardson is no exception. The handsome soldier hides his own secrets, but nothing will stop Sabine from finding out who killed her brother. Not even when the CIA declares her rogue. Now not only is the killer...
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Whiskey & Ribbons is told in three intertwining, melodic voices: Evi in present day, as she's snowed in with Dalton during a freak blizzard; Eamon before his murder, as he prepares for impending fatherhood and grapples with the danger of his profession; and Dalton, as he struggles to make sense of his life next to Eamon's, and as he decides to track down the biological father he's never known.
13) Real life
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At home there are four bedrooms: one for her, one for her little brother Sam, one for her parents, and one for the carcasses. Her father is a big-game hunter, a powerful predator, and her mother is submissive to her violent husband's demands. The young narrator spends the days with Sam, playing in the shells of cars dumped for scrap and listening out for the melody of the ice-cream truck, until a brutal accident shatters their world. The uncompromising...
14) Western wind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.
15) Sweet hearts
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With a lyrical beauty that reverberates off every page, Sweet Hearts tells the tale of a brother and sister that is as haunting as it is majestic Sixteen-year-old Flint Zimmer escapes juvenile detention, hitchhikes 612 miles across Montana, and arrives home, trailing "bad weather and bad luck," to be reunited with his half sister, ten-year-old Cecile, the only person he trusts and loves. Together they terrorize a local doctor and steal their mother's...
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"In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman--and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city, ...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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An imaginative eleven-year-old named Sebby discovers that the strange things he has been seeing are real, and connected somehow with the strip-mining operation that has destroyed his town, but getting help from his bickering family seems unlikely.
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After leaving the FBI, the last thing Wyatt Thornton wants is to get involved in a murder investigation. Yet Everly Baker is desperate for his help in solving her brother's mysterious death. The connections between cases tantalize Wyatt, as does the victim's sister. And when a criminal puts Everly in his crosshairs, Wyatt must trust his crime-solving instincts to protect her--and catch a killer!
19) Dovey Coe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
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"Kate and Gillian are stepsiblings, each bearing two generations' worth of mental illness and cruelty. One is an obsessive-compulsive baker, the other an oversexed hyper-intellectual. Emotionally stunted adults, they live separate, brittle lives. But they converge when Jonah, Gillian's beloved brother and a murder suspect, introduces himself to Kate. As Jonah continues his unannounced visits, and a string of murders plagues the county, Kate can't...
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