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1) Get happy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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"On her birthday, Minerva, a seventeen-year-old singer/songwriter, hears from the father she has never known and her placid life is turned upside down"--
2) Ready or not
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A happy family... Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all - a wonderful marriage, a gorgeous baby, a beautiful home. And now Alice, a journalist, starts investigating a story which could make her career - a serial killer in their town. A murderer lurking in the shadows... Very quickly though, the murder case takes its toll. Alice and Tom begin fighting all the time. Their baby daughter just won't stop crying. And sometimes it feels almost as if they're...
3) Alibi Creek
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Following a two-year prison stint, charming and wily Walker returns to his family's New Mexico ranch, where his pious older sister Lee Ann is busy caring for their mother, raising two sons, and grappling with unethical workplace demands. Walker's illegal activities quickly incite chaos in the town and Lee Ann's marriage, leading to drastic transformations of beliefs, identities, and relationships.
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Language
Español
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Description
"Marco tiene la vida ideal -muchos seguidores, medallas deportivas y una novia extraordinaria- hasta que una mala jugada de su padre lo expone frente a todos como un fraude. Y se rinde. La música y el amor de una mujer querrán rescatarlo. El rencor y un padre ausente amenazarán con hundirlo. Descalabrados es una novela intensa. Familiar. Unica. Necesaria. Donde el perdón es el protagonista. Uno de los libros más conmovedores del autor."
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Language
English
Description
Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter - precocious, headstrong Alma - is soon to be married to a young man training to be a doctor: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning wild stories about evil spirits for her beloved younger sister Roop, a restless child obsessed with death. Times are bad for girls in India. The long-awaited independence from...
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Series
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor...
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