Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The delightful final installment of the beloved and New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series. Wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia's friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones decide to change their commercial arrangement into a marital one, and, to Miss Julia's consternation,...
3) Linked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
4) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines in 1907, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
5) Katie's way
Author
Series
Pleasant Valley volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to forget Jacob, Katie Miller moves to a new town and opens a quilt shop. But her chattering Amish and English customers irk next-door neighbor, furniture maker Caleb Brand. When vandals target Katie's store, she turns to Caleb for comfort, and their friendship deepens. Will a secret from his past destroy their chances for romance?
6) Rated
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Societies thrive on order, and the Rating System is the ultimate symbol of organized social mobility. The higher your rating soars, the more valued you are. The lower it plummets, the harder you must work to improve yourself. For the students at the prestigious Maplethorpe Academy, every single thing they do is reflected in their ratings, updated continuously and available for all to see. But when an act of vandalism sullies the front doors of the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Abbie is paired by the court with Mrs. Merkel, an eccentric elderly woman who is a member of the town's crime prevention group. When Mrs. Merkel is attacked and hospitalized after bragging that she is onto something, only Abbie, with the help of Mrs. Merkel's quirky notes, is in a position to find the assailant.
Author
Series
Secret, book & scone society volume 4
Secret book and scone society volume 4
Secret Book and Scone Society novel volume 04
Secret book and scone society volume 4
Secret Book and Scone Society novel volume 04
Language
English
Description
"Entertaining...packed with mystery, romance, and sisterhood." - Kirkus Reviews New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams is back with the latest in her acclaimed Secret, Book, and Scone Society series. Local bookstore owner Nora Pennington is back on the case in Miracle Springs, North Carolina when an accidental death turns out to be something much more sinister... Nora Pennington is known for her window displays, and as Halloween...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Former author and newspaper reporter, Jim Qwilleran, who has been taking lesser jobs and even been unemployed for a long time, is interviewing for a job at the Daily Fluxion city newspaper. Offered a starting job in the Feature Department, he is assigned the position of art writer. In desperate need of employment, he accepts and immediately is told to do a story about an artist, Cal Halapay, who was badly reviewed by the other Fluxion art critic,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas and Viv Adler are the envy of their neighbors: attractive, successful, with well-mannered children and a beautifully restored home. Until one morning, when they wake up to find their porch has been pelted with eggs. It's a prank, Thomas insists; the work of a few out-of-control kids. But when a smoke bomb is tossed on their front lawn, and their car's tires are punctured, the family begins to worry. Surveillance cameras show nothing but grainy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On the run from a troubled past, Kate Weller, the newest member of Price Investigations, covers her tracks, changes her name and takes a case in Charleston, South Carolina, where she can hide in plain sight. Renting a charming room with a waterfront view, Kate sets about trying to locate her adopted client's natural siblings, only to find more questions than answers when she eventually tracks down a long-lost sister. Meanwhile, her new landlord won't...
16) Like home
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Chinelo is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but when her friend Kate's parent's store is vandalized and the vandal still at large, Nelo and her beloved Ginger East are shaken to their core.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A place of worship is vandalised, daubed swastikas testifying to a hatred that, for a time at least, defies understanding. But the Deckers, Rina and her detective husband Peter, soon realise the violence done to their synagogue can be traced to one deeply disturbed adolescent. Ernesto Golding, Born into privilege but obsessed by the past, he is eventually charged, his case closed. But Peter Decker still worries that others were involved. And six months...
18) Bad magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Clay, a boy who no longer believes in magic, tags graffiti on his classroom wall and, as punishment, is sent to a camp for wayward kids located on a volcanic island, where eccentric campmates abound, a ghost walks among the abandoned ruins of a mansion, and a dangerous force threatens to erupt with bad magic"--
19) It wasn't me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Theo's photography project is vandalized, the five students nearby all claim it was not them, so Theo's favorite teacher suggests they all spend vacation week together and get to the truth.
20) Hoot
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Roy Eberhardt is the only child in a family that is constantly relocating for his father's work. At 14, he's once again the new kid, this time in the tiny Florida beach town of Coconut Cove. Predictably, a bully nicknames him "Cowgirl" and proceeds to torture him. Unpredictably, a barefoot blonde boy who runs alongside the school bus every morning fascinates him. Tough-as-nails girl jock Beatrice befriends Roy, helps with the bully, and is revealed...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request