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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The internationally acclaimed sensation that started a movement of giving. When his teacher sets a challenge to his class to come up with a plan to change the world for the better, twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney's idea is simple, do a good deed for three people and ask each of them to pay it forward to three others who need help. At first, the plan goes awry, and Trevor's project seems valuable only as a lesson on the dark side of human nature. But...
Pub. Date
s201
Language
English
Description
Hanna Baker left her small town of Kern to seek the stardom that everyone knew was her destiny. Now, ten years later, with none of her dreams coming to fruition and feeling like a failure, Hanna heads aback to Kern to cheer herself up with a real, hometown, family Christmas. Once back, Hanna sees that life in Kern has moved on quite nicely without her and she soon finds herself longing for her past. Everyone seems so content with their lives maybe...
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 12
Language
English
Description
The latest Mitford contemporary novel, following LIGHT FROM HEAVEN. After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors. While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he's offered one, he decides he doesn't want it. Maybe he's lost his passion. His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they're...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Sadie Speer's grandson, Theo Macomb, finds an old ledger at a yard sale in Denver, he eagerly shows it to her. Oddly, the book contains diary entries, not numbers. It seems to hold clues to an unsolved Silver Peak bank robbery that implicated the father of James Morgan, the current bank president and Edwin Marshall's opponent for the mayoral race. Theo tells his friends about the book, inadvertently renewing speculation about the scandal and...
Author
Series
Brides of Bliss County volume 4
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Morgan grew up in Mustang Creek, Wyoming, and couldn't wait to escape to the big city. But life in New York isn't as fabulous as she'd like to admit--she's lonely, doing a job she doesn't love and dating too many frogs she meets online. There was one potential prince, though--Jaxon Locke, a veterinarian with definite possibilities--but his move to Idaho to fill in at his dad's vet practice ended things just as they were getting interesting....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's ca
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999], c1991
Language
English
Description
"Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on...
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