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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...
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Emily Maxwell volume 01
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English
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"Riveting...O'Nan has written the perfect summer-by-the-lake read...This is the landscape of family Jonathan Franzen illuminates in The Corrections, or Jane Smiley in Ordinary Love." "[O'Nan's] finest and deepest novel to date...The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life....[O'Nan] draws [his characters] with sympathy and subtlety, especially the women."--(From publisher.)
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Butternut Lake volume 6
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English
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"Butternut Lake is an idyllic place--but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet... Sometimes life changes in an instant. Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. But now,...
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The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth
1843 is the "last year of the world," according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's Glen, where the faithful wait, work, and pray for the world to end.
Vernelia, Amy, and Catherine Charter are the three young townswomen whose father falls under...
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English
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The interlocking lives of four millionaire families at the turn of the century, describing their loves and dramas. They own a brewery, a tannery, a department store and a meat factory, and they all have summer homes by a lake in Wisconsin. By the author of Bitches Ride Alone.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Georgia can almost feel her heart cracking a little more every day. With Daddy sinking deeper into alcoholism and Mama struggling to keep the family afloat, Georgia is sent to stay with her mysterious great aunt in her old country house. Soon, lonely Georgia meets Angela, a girl with secrets of her own, and they discover a magical lake. At first, the lake offers a thrilling escape, but as things grow worse at home, a troubled boy appears at the lake...
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