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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.
2) Life is fun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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To be happy, just follow these simple instructions. Don't bring snakes inside the house. Laugh a lot! And most importantly, make big, big plans. Nancy Carlson presents another warm and funny book sure to boost spirits and encourage kids to make the most of life.
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T.D. Jakes is an internationally beloved pastor and a bestselling author. In Cover Girls, he delivers the story of four women who, though from very different backgrounds, are all struggling with their faith. Michelle wants control, Tonya wants to be able to trust, and Mrs. Judson wants to let down her guard. Through Miz Ida's wisdom, and each other's support, these women discover that friendship may be the answer to their prayers.
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The Tempest Tales, an Essence Book Club Recommended Read, features Tempest Landry, a black man shot down by an over-eager cop. But that's not the end of the line for Tempest. Unwilling to accept St. Peter's judgment that he spend eternity in Hell, Tempest is sent back to Harlem- guardian angel in tow-to make things right.
6) Tender grace
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Audrey Eaton awakes at three in the morning and gets up to retrieve her husband, Tom, from the recliner where he has fallen asleep watching a ball game. But when she enters the living room and looks at his gentle face in the soft lamp light, she knows their time together is over. Grief attacks her until all she can think about is how much she wants her old life back. Determined to find healing, she embarks on a journey to the one place Tom and she...
7) 13 gifts
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Willow Falls series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, tries to break out of her shell by stealing the school mascot, a goat, but she gets caught and is shipped off for the summer to stay with relatives in the quirky town of Willow Falls, which she decides is as good a place as any to reinvent herself.
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Jubilant soul novels volume 3
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English
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Indigo Burns is excited. Her wedding preparations to the man of her dreams are under way, her career as a photographer is a success, and her family seems to be doing better than ever - all except her brother Reuben who nobody has seen in years. But that's about to change, because Reuben has decided to move back home to Jubilant, Texas. But Reuben's hope to find healing with his sisters doesn't seem to be working. Soon enough their lives intersect...
11) First love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
12) The luxe
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Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
13) Out of the Easy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
15) Flipped
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
16) Andy
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Ellie's people volume 6
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Herald Press
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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An overweight, short-tempered Amish teenager learns to control his eating habits and his anger after running away to live as a hobo.
17) Bound in love
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Patchwork mysteries volume 9
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Sarah finds an anonymously published book hidden in the library, she is curious about who wrote it and where it came from.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Groundhog wants to please all the animals, but half of them want spring to come quickly and the other half do not--and all of them think he controls the seasons, so what is a poor groundhog to do on Groundhog Day?
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