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81) Return to sender
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Rosalind "Lin" Townsend, thrown out of the house at the age of seventeen when she becomes pregnant, and rejected by the baby's father, Nick Pemberton, manages to raise her son on her own and is about to send him off to college at New York University nineteen years later when she crosses paths with Nick, now a millionaire, and decides to get revenge by enacting a plan to disrupt his life and his finances.
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Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
83) Little bear
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.
85) Another dawn
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Grace Graham returns to her small hometown of Shoal Creek, Tenn., after being entreated by her sister to pull some family duty by staying with their father, whom Grace dislikes, after he has surgery. Grace's belief in an all-natural lifestyle includes her refusal to vaccinate her four-year-old son, Dylan, who contracts measles shortly after he and his mother arrive in Tennessee. Grace then comes to see the consequences of many of her choices.
86) Before the storm
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Laural Lockwood's 15-year-old son Andy is "special". She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified whenthe church is consumed by fire. Andy s
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"Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now she's back home. But her release cannot...
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the series has sold over seven million copies in the United States alone. Now, this phenomenally successful series is being trans
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Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In a rhythmically-written conversation between parent and child, Mama lists her son's many good traits--from physical attributes to behavior--and though he dismisses each quality as just a little thing, Mama explains that there is nothing little about love.
91) Bertie project
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44 Scotland Street volume 11
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Anchor
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2017
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English
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"Bertie's mother Irene returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been exposed to the worst of evils--television shows, ice cream parlors, and even unsanctioned art at the National Portrait Gallery. Her wrath descends on Bertie's long-suffering father, Stuart. But Stuart has found a reason to spend more time outside of the house and seems to have a new spring in his step. What does this mean for the residents of 44...
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After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but...
93) Lucky for good
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the caf?e, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
94) Nine
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In a society where everyone gets nine lives and enjoys burning through them, Julian is attempting to hang on to his first life as long as possible to avoid the example set by his mother and the resulting sickness she has to endure.
Julian lives in a world where humans have nine lives. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. His mother burned through her first eight in just a few years,...
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Forty-year-old widow Hush McGillen, having worked to create a booming apple orchard enterprise and to keep her son Davis from learning the truth about his philandering father, finds all her secrets exposed when Davis secretly marries the rebellious daughter of the President of the United States and brings her home to Georgia, along with her attractive bodyguard, Nicholas Jakobek.
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