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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter try to restore their bonds after the girl returns from boarding school.
Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A New Hampshire girl effects miraculous cures, becoming the center of a controversy involving doctors, priests and the media. The divorced father who blames the mother sues for custody and the result is a trial, pitting believers against skeptics.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Virginia and Jonathan care for young Mindy, the daughter of Virginia's childhood friend. The troubled young mother has drifted in and out of her daughter's life over the years, and now she suddenly reappears. Through it all. Virginia learns a reliance on God she didn't know was possible, growing through daily encounter and unexpected situations into a woman of strength and character.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The one who needs rescuing isn t always the one in the tower. Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Grace is used to handling everything herself, but as she struggles to complete an interview with the school's top football star, work on her blog, and deal with her absentee mother, she begins to crack under the pressure and must turn to God and her friends for help.
8) The telling
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English
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Determined to forgo traditional medicine as she struggles to come to terms with a grave medical diagnosis, a graduate student hopes to find answers and healing in Amish country, but first, she offers to drive her Amish friend to Ohio to search for her mother.
9) Zen and gone
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Language
English
Description
Because their mother is usually high, Essa, seventeen, must be responsible for her sister, nine-year-old Puck, but when Puck disappears during a hike outside of Boulder, Essa must rely on her newfound spiritual strength and boyfriend Oliver.
10) Forever past
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Italy, 1873. Claire Clairmont, one of the last surviving members of the Byron/Shelley circle, is determined to uncover the true fate of Allegra, her daughter conceived with Lord Byron. But her quest so far has been fraught with danger, and Claire knows she has enemies who will stop at nothing to keep past secrets hidden. When she learns of a stunning revelation involving the abbess and Allegra, Claire returns to the convent of Bagnacavallo with her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Mary Mae, living with her parents in fossil-rich southern Ohio, tries to reconcile, despite her mother's strong disapproval, her family's Creationist beliefs with the prehistoric fossils she studies in school.
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Language
English
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It is the autumn of 1920 and Leah Breckenridge is desperate to find a way to provide for her young daughter. After losing her husband and infant son in an accident, she is angry at God and fearful about the future. Finding refuge in a boardinghouse run by her late husband's aunt, Leah's heart begins the slow process of mending. Is it the people who surround her--or perhaps this very house--that reach into her heart with healing? As Leah finds peace...
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Language
English
Description
In difficult circumstances, Charlotte Ward, once a famed stage actress, tries to restart her career--only to experience disaster. Her estranged daughter, Rosalind, comes to the rescue and moves her mother to a quiet English coastal village. Charlotte is grateful to get to know Rosalind after years apart. As one who has regrets about her own romantic past, it's a joy for Charlotte to see love blossom for her daughter. For Rosalind, however it's time...
15) Knocking
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Series
New beginnings volume Book 1
Language
English
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"How do you walk a tightrope when it's unraveling beneath your feet? Tonya is a tireless pastor's wife, but when her daughter plays a prank on their reclusive neighbor, her orderly life blows up. Is her husband really having an affair? Who is this neighbor, and why won't she come out of her house? How can she get her daughter to come back home? Does Tonya even have a home anymore? Meanwhile, seven senior ladies are starting a church down the street....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
17) Promises to keep
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Language
English
Description
The Anthony family, on the run from their alcoholic husband and father, leaves Minneapolis for the small town of Mills River, Ill. But they've barely begun to acclimate when sassy old lady Tillie Monroe shows up at their doorstep explaining that the house once belonged to her and her late husband.
18) The sunroom
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Language
English
Description
When Becky Owens finds out that her mother has cancer, she makes a deal with God to exchange her most cherished possession for her mother's life.
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English
Description
"Bold widow Johanna Yoder stuns Roland Byler when she asks him to be her husband. To Johanna, it seems very sensible that they marry. She has two children, and he has a son. Why shouldn't their families become one? But the widower has never forgotten his long-ago love for her; it was his foolish mistake that split them apart. This could be a fresh start for both of them. Until she reveals she wants a marriage of convenience only. It's up to Roland...
20) Tomorrow's dream
Author
Series
Kyle Adams novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Kyle's life seemed perfect until a medical diagnosis shattered her world. Utterly isolated from the emotional and spiritual anchors of her life, Kyle discovers that her homeoming was only the beginning of the story.
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