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1) Eyes only
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 24
Language
English
Description
Lush, exclusive Spyder Island is home to many of the world's billionaires. Years ago, Gretchen Spyder, daughter of the island's namesake, gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now Gretchen and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A girl who's adopted and raised by a race of creatures with feathers for hair and magic in their veins becomes involved in an ancient war and a centuries-old love, discovering startling truths about the world she lives in"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter Mountains.
6) Silas Marner
Author
Language
English
Description
This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over their very ill deacon. Two pieces of evidence are against Silas: his possession of a pocket knife and the bag that formerly contained the money. Although there is also...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A darkness has entered the world and the Dragon Prince is wreaking havoc wherever she goes. With the war upon her, Echo must use every bit of her firebird powers or risk losing those she holds dear.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and a searing indictment of the American foster care system--
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it...
9) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
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