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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life continuing without her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After being punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
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Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Peppers family of Counterpoint, Georgia. Henry and Florida Peppers are pertinacious Baptist parents whose dearest wishes are to keep their asthmatic son Roderick alive and their smart-ass daughter Louise from going to hell. Louise, the little hellion, tells the story.
And what a story it is, about how ponderous Henry, hysterical Florida, and hell-bent-for-rebellion Louise, awash in grief after Roderick's death at fifteen,...
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. --
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Language
English
Description
A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important...
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Series
Nantucket love stories volume 1
Language
English
Description
Once childhood friends, Samantha and Landon are now separated by distance and secrets. Will Samantha's return to Nantucket bring her the peace she longs for? Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it . . . never...
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Series
Embassy Row novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay."
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Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Shannon McNamara has exciting plans for the summer, and she can't wait to get to them. Unbeknownst to her, however, her widowed and ailing mother has plans of her own--to relocate them both to the heart of Amish country in Ohio where she has relatives who can look after her. Shannon quickly learns that living a "simple" life is actually a lot of hard work. But when a hot young Amish guy named Ezra enters the picture, she's ready to...
11) The Belles
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Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world"--
12) Muted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown.
So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the...
13) Unhappy Appy
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Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure.In Unhappy Appy, Winnie...
14) Buckskin bandit
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Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. Along with her dad and sister, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom, who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches her horses about unconditional love and trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities fill Winnie's life with friendship and adventure.#8: Buckskin Bandit-When a buckskin...
15) Bold beauty
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Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Winnie Willis has a way with horses. She can gentle the wildest mare, but other parts of life don't always come as easily. Along with her dad and sister, Lizzy, Winnie is learning how to live without her mom-who was also a natural horse gentler. As Winnie teaches horses about unconditional love and blind trust, God shows Winnie that he can be trusted as well. Readers will be hooked on the series' vivid characters, whose quirky personalities...
16) Mathilda Savitch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Mathilda investigates her older sister's shattering death and learns perplexing truths when she accesses her sister's computer journals and reads about a secret underworld life.
17) Hannah's hope
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Series
Red gloves series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.
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Series
Stoney Ridge seasons volume 3
Language
English
Description
In her wildest dreams, spunky and impulsive nineteen-year-old Mary Kate Lapp never imagined herself behind a schoolteacher's desk. A run-in (literally) with the schoolteacher compels her to act as a substitute teacher, just as her restless desire to see the world compels her to apply for a passport...just in case. The only thing of interest to M.K. in the sleepy Amish community of Stoney Ridge is the unexpected death of a sheep farmer that coincided...
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Language
English
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"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work." -Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl
It's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing...
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