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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March -- now Jo Bhaer -- couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and there are plenty of troubles and adventures in store.
3) Amity
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"--
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
Lucy, feeling independent after beginning her career as a nurse and considering leaving her boyfriend, takes in a lost teenager, and, as she tries to help and find out information about her, she realizes what she should do with her love life; while another resident of Cape Light, Betty, is distracted from her feelings over her ex-husband's decision to start a new family by a man she met at the Rotary Club's Christmas party.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
John Steinbeck is revered for his classic, uniquely American works of fiction. The Winter of Our Discontent features Ethan Allen Hawley, formerly of the New England aristocracy but now a humble grocery clerk. Inspiring little but resentment in his wife and daughters, Ethan nevertheless does his utmost to live an honest life. Every man, however, has his breaking point, and Ethan risks his integrity and much more as he embarks on what he hopes will...
8) Safe harbor
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Series
Language
English
Description
Artist Dana Underhill returns to the coastal Connecticut town she grew up in to take charge of her nieces after their parents are killed in a boating accident. She meets marine biologist Sam Trevor, who has loved her since childhood, but questions about the accident still trouble her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men' was first published in 1886 as the final book in the Little Women series. In it, Jo's children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer as well as Jo's sons Rob and Teddy. The book takes place ten years after Little Men." --Provided by publisher....
11) Good Wives
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Series
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursuing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way. But when tragedy strikes, the sisters' lives are turned upside down. With perseverance and family, together they must overcome hardships to find happiness. --Worldcat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding...
13) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, and only place she can go is to Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meet in such circumstances, unleashing predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
14) Tara Road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Ria lives a charmed life with her adoring husband and two young children. She fills their large Dublin house with the warmth of gourmet cooking and company. But when the charm breaks, and her husband leaves her for a young, pregnant girlfriend, Ria makes an impulsive decision. She switches houses for the summer with an American woman. Soon, Ria finds herself in rural Connecticut, and the American enters Ria's busy Irish neighborhood. As the weeks...
15) Home fires
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Series
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Anne Davis returns to her childhood home in New England to recover from the death of a daughter and the breakup of her marriage. There is a fire, she is rescued by firefighter Thomas Devlin and love follows.
16) Heaven and earth
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them-which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her-and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control. Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister...
18) Mercy snow
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Language
English
Description
In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake. June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant ne'er-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her--and...
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily Warwick, mayor of the charming village of Cape Light on the New England coast, struggles to deal with a lot of conflicting feelings as she tries to develop a relationship with Sara, the child she gave up for adoption twenty years earlier; creates a deepening bond with newspaper publisher Dan Forbes; and worries about Reverend Ben, whose crisis of faith is keeping him from offering counsel.
20) Ox-cart man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1130L
Language
English
Description
This lyrical journey through the changing seasons and passing years in the life of one New Englander and his family captures both the peace and the bustling energy of nineteenth-century America.
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