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2) Loose ends
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A woman?s unresolved past has disturbing implications for her future in this compelling psychological mystery. When she was nineteen, Kate?s father, stepmother and eight-year-old sister were killed in a mysterious car accident in South America. The only survivor, Kate has no recollection of what happened that terrible day. But a proposition from a stranger becomes the catalyst for a series of events that will change Kate?s life irrevocably. Somehow...
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First published in 1966, No Graven Image is the only novel of the best-selling author Elisabeth Elliot.
Margaret, an intrepid twenty-five-year-old missionary, travels to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador to start her ministry. She sees little progress at first, but eventually gains a following and an enhanced reputation for her part in the safe and seemingly miraculous delivery of a breech baby. Things seem to be going well. She works on her translation...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Zeeta comes to terms with her flighty mother and their itinerant life when, soon after moving to Ecuador, she helps an American teenager find his birth father in a nearby village.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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Like his ancestors before him, ten-year-old Eduardo enjoys going into Ecuador's rain forest to collect Brazil nuts with his father, but when the wild tamarins that always accompany them disappear Eduardo is determined to find them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
7) Dark fire
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English
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Romantic suspense set in exotic surroundings - The Andean Cloud Forest in Ecuador is mysterious and beautiful. Trace Rawlings is a man who lives by his own rules. Ruthless and domineering, he takes what he wants. But Cynthia is used to someone trying to manipulate her, having dealt with her father all her life. She feels sure she can handle Trace. After all, he's just there to guide her through the treacherous forest, right?
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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«Un relato sobre el poder de la familia, cocinado con habilidad y condimentado tanto con misterio como con magia. Esta novela es simplemente exquisita.» V.E. Schwab, autora de La vida invisible de Addie LaRue Los Montoya están acostumbrados a una vida sin explicaciones. Han aprendido a no preguntar por qué la despensa nunca parece vacía, o por qué su matriarca nunca abandona su casa en Cuatro Ríos, ni siquiera para las graduaciones, bodas o...
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Trailblazer books volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A fictionalized account of the five missionaries who carried God's word to the fierce Aucas, or Huaorani, of Ecuador in 1956.
11) Red palms
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Benita's wealthy family goes bankrupt as a result of the Depression, they go from their luxurious life in Guayaquil, Ecuador to a primitive island, with the wild scheme of starting a coconut plantation.
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