Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Brainy Scott, a great kicker who otherwise struggles with football, and star quarterback Chris, who has dyslexia, team up to help each other succeed in both football and school.
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 1
Thorndike Press large print basic
Neopolitan novels volume 01
Amica geniale volume 1
More Series...
Thorndike Press large print basic
Neopolitan novels volume 01
Amica geniale volume 1
More Series...
Language
English
Description
This modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough...
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 2
Thorndike Press large print basic
Amica geniale volume 2
Amica geniale volume 02
More Series...
Thorndike Press large print basic
Amica geniale volume 2
Amica geniale volume 02
More Series...
Language
English
Description
The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 3
Thorndike Press large print basic
Neopolitan novels volume 03
Amica geniale volume 03
Thorndike Press large print basic
Neopolitan novels volume 03
Amica geniale volume 03
Language
English
Description
Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Four friends ... Joni, Deb, Eden, and Trina have been best friends since high school, sharing a bond that has seen them through their teenage years and into adulthood. But now, time and circumstance is starting to pull them apart as careers, husbands, and babies get in the way. As their yearly vacation becomes less of a priority--at least for three of the women--how can Joni find a way to draw the four of them back together? Four secrets ... During...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In tribute to their late best friend, three former high school friends, in a 1962 red Lincoln Continental convertible, take the road trip of their lives, discovering that it's never too late to live the wild life--and rediscovering what made them "best friends forever."
When they posed for a photo at their high school graduation, they vowed they'd be friends forever, but teenage promises are so easily broken, and now, thirty years later, they're...
10) Ivy and Bean
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
Author
Series
Summer friends volume 02
Language
English
Description
Sunset, Kentucky. After putting the brakes on her dead-end relationship, local veterinarian Ivey Anders is ready to soak up this summer on her own terms. The way she sees it, no dating means no disappointment. But when she meets Corbin Meyer-- and his troubled young son, Justin-- Ivey's no-strings strategy threatens to unravel before she can put it into practice. Trust doesn't come easy for Ivey's best friend, Hope Mage, a veterinary-clinic assistant...
12) Ellen Tebbits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The part of third grade Ellen Tebbits likes most is having Austine Allen for her best friend.
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sable has everything and her bestselling novels have made her a star. But she has a past she is desperate to hide. Elly is an intellectual who has hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit she is tired of being alone. Barbara Ann is the talent behind twenty-six romance novels, but she's lost control of her career and her family. Beth's popular mysteries have become the only way she can fight against the secret tyranny of an abusive...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case. But amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings...
Author
Series
Love at the resort volume 2
Thorndike Press large print romance
Summer Resort volume 02
Summer Resort volume 2
More Series...
Thorndike Press large print romance
Summer Resort volume 02
Summer Resort volume 2
More Series...
Language
English
Description
"When single mom Joy Lee abandoned her old life to take a job at a lakeside resort, she found something that her family's wealth and influence could never buy: peace of mind. Not easy to come by for the once-burned divorcée who keeps everyone at a distance. But when her new friend, Maris, dares her to take a chance with the drive-in's charismatic new owner, everything changes for Joy and her young son. A difficult childhood has left Maris Kennedy...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 21
The Baby-sitters Club volume 21
The Baby-sitters Club volume no 21
The Baby-sitters Club volume 21
The Baby-sitters Club volume no 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Kristy is thrilled to get a steady baby-sitting job for the Arnold twins and looks forward to the money she will earn, but their bad behavior proves to be a cry to be treated as individuals, and Kristy obliges.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request