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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying...
3) Simple gifts
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Can anything else go wrong? Marlene Queens goes home to Parness Springs, Missouri, to put her late Aunt Beth's house on the market and settle the estate. But once she's back home, Marlene suddenly finds herself in over her head. Her Aunt Ingrid grows more demanding by the day. Marlene discovers her childhood sweetheart is now the local vet and the town's acting mayor. And when a group of citizens want to put up a statue in memory of Marlene's father-the...
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Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetry. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking. With her trademark humor, wild imagination, great storytelling, and deep understanding of folly and the human heart, the beloved Fannie Flagg tells an unforgettable story of life, afterlife, and the remarkable goings-on of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
8) Missouri
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Provides an introduction to the history, culture, geography, and government of Missouri.
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Brides of Webster County volume 4
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Missouri, as well as general facts about the state.
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Mason novels volume 3
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English
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"When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep...
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Chandler Sisters volume 1
Publisher
Gilead Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck--until her father's protege, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business opportunity to purchase a trio of cottages just outside of Langhorne,...
15) Dear to me
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Brides of Webster County volume 3
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English
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What's a girl to do when she loves animals and her boyfriend loves to hunt? Melinda Andrews believes all animals should be protected and cared for by humans. Her longtime sweetheart, Gabe Swartz. believes in enjoying responsible hunting for food and population control. When Gabe proposes marriage to Melinda, she worries that their differences on this issue could war against their happiness. When a veterinary friend suggests Melinda make a career out...
19) A family apart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Whe their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
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New beginnings (Mary Ellis) volume 2
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English
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Love Comes to Paradise is the second book in bestselling author Mary Ellis's New Beginnings series. It's about fresh starts...and how faith in God and His perfect plans provide the peace and joy all long for.
Nora King believes she is a woman in love. When Elam Detweiler leaves the ultraconservative Amish district of Harmony, Maine, and moves to Paradise, Missouri, Nora follows soon after. But does she love the man or the independence and freethinking...
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