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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
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Singing River series volume 1
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As the year 1928 begins, fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her mother is expecting her fifth baby. Lanie has dreams of going to college and being a writer. Then tragedy strikes. Book One in the Singing River Series
3) Aaron's Rod
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Aaron Sisson lives a humble life in the English Midlands. He works as a union official for the coalmines, but his real passion is music. As an amateur, but very talented flautist, Aaron dreams of a big career as a beloved musician. Though, with his small community and unglamorous job at the coal mine, this dream seems unattainable. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, and unsatisfied at work, Aaron becomes more and more frustrated with his life. Finally,...
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Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful day was her entire town - buildings and people - floating underwater. Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake turns up in a farmer's field....
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"When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepmother. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated, and irresistible to every man she meets. The two girls begin to confide in one another and Molly soon finds herself a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs--but in doing so risks losing both her own reputation and the man...
7) The unseen
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"Islanders are never afraid, if they were, they wouldn't be able to live here. Born on the island that bears her name, Ingrid Barroy's world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of a bridge, and her mother longs for her own childhood island, and Norway faces its own sea change: the advent of a modern world and its attendant unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly...
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Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer's son Though his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous-not with a mistress, but with one of the city's finest doctors. Kramer plans to enlist him in a noble purpose: keeping his son out of Vietnam. The doctor won't provide this service to just anyone, but he and Benny have a mutual friend in the...
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Set during Ireland’s devastating potato famine, a spellbinding novel of a young woman torn between love for her family and duty to her English husband.
Patrick O’Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother’s untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O’Malley clan.
At fifteen, Gracelin...
Patrick O’Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother’s untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O’Malley clan.
At fifteen, Gracelin...
10) So Big
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
900L
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Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
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Elizabeth I: From princess, to outcast, to the world's most powerful queen
It is recorded that never once during her life did Elizabeth Tudor speak of her mother Anne Boleyn; but did she never think of her?
As a little girl, Elizabeth Tudor knows she is a princess but one day is suddenly told she is now 'the Lady Elizabeth'. She witnesses from the sidelines the glittering splendour of her father's court, and the terrifying consequences of his wrath.
With...
12) Just Friends
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The Fantastic Four leaped out of the pages of the comics and straight into suburbia. Justin, Jill, Sam, and Amanda were born in the same year, lived on the same street, and were inseparable during their early childhood. The bond they shared became tested in middle school when Amanda started to drift from the group. By the time they entered high school Amanda was rarely seen with her childhood friends.
Throughout high school Sam was officially placed...
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A LOL Romantic comedy series set in the small, fictional town of Friendship, Texas.
The first three books in the series, together in one set:
Edge of Glory
Jay Morningstar was an Olympic swimming legend.
I had a poster of him wearing nothing more than his gold medals and a pair of man panties on my bedroom wall.
Needless to say when Jay walked into my parents' restaurant in the tiny town of Friendship, Texas, I made an idiot of myself.
But somehow...
14) Love or Family
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As the next in the line of succession to a global empire, Ford Cooper Pope is royalty. But beneath his cocky façade lies a broken man filled with self-doubt. He once longed to leave the unattainable expectations of his father behind and run away with the love of his life. He was willing to sacrifice everything for her-right up to the moment she ripped his heart out. Now, he wears a mask and dutifully plays the good son. His mother, Eliza, watched...
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The name MATATA in Kiswahili means troublesome. Jimmy gets this name from his grandfather who has a reputation in the village - but, of course, his becomes the dimunitative KATATA. And then he acquires another name - KARDA - from an American priest. So as we meet him in JIMMY KARDA, he is already loaded. In this episode however, Jimmy longs to get away from the boring city estate where he lives - and especially away from his sister who he considers...
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A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright."
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Books 1-7 of the Made in Yorkshire Series
Richard Warren is growing up in the picturesque village of Ledder Bridge. Little does he know the march of time is destroying centuries of tradition in the British countryside. With the allure of the cities taking hold, this son of a farmer leaves the safety of Yorkshire and indulges in the delights and the darkness of 20th century London, Newcastle, and Leeds.
He never would have guessed this was how his...
18) Stolen Time
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In a rural French village, a letter is delivered decades late, inspiring a young woman to try to reunite two star-crossed lovers . . .
Middle school teacher by day, romance writer by night, and group knitter on Tuesday evenings, Flavie Richalet leads a fairly uneventful life-until she receives a long delayed letter meant for a total stranger. Postmarked 1971, the yellowed envelope, addressed to an Amélie Lacombe, holds a fervent message of love...
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In this coming of age memoir, we follow young Danny Davis living in rural Oregon during the Great Depression and see through his hopeful eyes what he believes is the path to simply living a good life. Early tragedy orphans him, but the love and support of a multinational extended family leads him to a remarkable invention at thirteen years old, that sets the entire family up for life financially.
The characters woven through Danny's story will make...
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A classic horse racing novella, examining love, loss, and life's toughest choices.Originally published in 2011, The Head and Not The Heart spurred the creating of the bestselling, award-nominated Alex & Alexander series. Now, read this bonus novella for more background on the action between Runaway Alex and Other People's Horses, Books 1 & 2 of the Alex & Alexander series. About the Book Alex's life looks pretty wonderful to the casual observer. She's...
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