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Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.
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Anna has studiously avoided her Aunt Rose-the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world-ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland's eastern shore, but she can't forgive or forget.
Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family's restaurant, where...
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In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her driver's license doesn't expire until her ninety-seventh birthday, she also longs to get back behind the wheel of her sporty '89 Olds. To pass the time until independence, Lil strikes up some new friendships....
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Shannon saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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9) Harmony
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Found as a baby by an old farm couple in the Tennessee mountains, Harmony has always been different, but when she begins developing special powers, she wants nothing more than to be ordinary.
10) A horse to love
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1987
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English
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With her aunt's help, a girl learns that owning and caring for her dream horse is both frustrating and rewarding.
11) Pig Pig returns
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Series
Pig Pig books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
12) Killjoy
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Series
Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
13) Myrtle
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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With the help of their Aunt Tizzy, Myrtle and her baby brother learn how to deal with a mean neighbor named Frances.
14) One night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Kelly, ex-addict niece of a nationally-renowned Minnesota talk show host, has an unexpected adventure with the visiting prince of a war-torn Eastern European country.
15) Keeping the moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
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English
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Eloise Hempel is on her way to teach a class at Harvard when she receives devastating news. Her sister and her husband have been killed in a tragic accident, and Eloise must return home to Cincinnati to take her sister's three children, Theodora, Josh, and Claire, out of the hands of her own incapable mother. Nearly two decades later, Eloise is still in that house, still thinking about what she left behind. With Claire leaving for New York City for...
18) Wedding flowers
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The Cobble Street cousins volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old cousins Lily, Rosie, and Tess return to their aunt's house on Cobble Street to help her plan the perfect wedding.
19) Making plum jam
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On this year's visit to his great-aunts' farm, a young boy enjoys all that is involved in making plum jam--even the adventure of getting the plums from Farmer Wilson's tree.
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