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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, particularly her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her younger brother spent the summer with him in North Carolina. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist,...
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Unlucky in work, love, and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home. Each has a secret she's unwilling to share - each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion, TV something other families watched. Their father, a renowned professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in verse, named all three girls for great Shakespearean women - Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca),...
3) Owl babies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
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Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it's easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic "Wintermoon" ski trip. But with this year's trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier's adult children find themselves reuniting in the family home without their parents for the first time...
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Wishing Tree volume 1
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The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they’ve lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn’t been home since the end of the world’s shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the Christmas wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. In the spirit of the season, will they let go of past hurts and greet the...
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Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
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Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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2024.
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"Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant--right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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A little girl, lost in a forest along the Appalachian Trail, draws comfort from tuning her radio to Boston Red Sox broadcasts and following her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. He becomes her key to surviving an unseen enemy leaving slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.
13) Coraline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in a another house just like her own. Only it's different...At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind up angels that flutter about the...
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 5
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Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are seemingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without...
16) Cape Refuge
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The brutal murders of Thelma and Wayne Owens have stunned the Cape Refuge community. Their son-in-law is accused, but the police chief thinks the Owens' ministry, a halfway house, shelters more likely suspects. Morgan Cleary struggles to keep the house running with her husband in jail. Her embittered sister, Blair, wants no part of it - until her search for the true killer uncovers some startling findings.
17) Rogue
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Having had just about enough of the gadabout ways of dot-com millionaire and perpetual Peter Pan, Blake Williams, Maxine, 42, divorced him five years ago and is raising their three children (ages 13, 12 and six) while running a thriving psychiatric practice specializing in childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Blake, meanwhile, is continent-hopping among houses in London, Morocco and New York, bedding nubile young things. Maxine and Blake have...
18) The tiger rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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"In one morning, Rob Horton discovers a tiger in a cage and a girl who speaks her mind. It's then that he begins to understand that some things - like memories, and heartache, and tigers - can't be locked up forever" -- back cover.
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2018
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Who?
A baby!
That's you, baby, you!
That's who!
Who? explores the relationships babies form with the people and things they love the most. The text's repetitive verse and melodic voice will captivate babies and toddlers and draw them into the sounds and images of the book.
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While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead--and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant,...