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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts. Life there is no fun, until James receives some magical, tiny green things and accidentally drops them by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends -- Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug,...
2) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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“Once you start looking for the happy things, you dont think about the bad ones as much.” Thats the joyful way Pollyanna sees the world: no matter what happens, she plays her “Just Be Glad” game and finds the sunny side of any situation. But when shes orphaned and forced to live with her rigid Aunt Polly, will high-spirited Pollyanna succeed in melting her Aunts cold heart? -Amazon Summary
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through...
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
5) Annie Dunne
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English
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"Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel."—The New York Times Book Review
Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available.
It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left...
Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available.
It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running. Suddenly, Annie's young niece and nephew are left...
6) Killjoy
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English
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Avery Delaney has tried hard to put her past behind her. Abandoned by her mother as an infant, she was raised by her grandmother and her aunt. At age ten, she witnessed her grandmother's murder before she herself was shot and left for dead. Now working as an FBI agent, she is forced to work on the case of her missing Aunt Carolyn who was sent to a posh spa in the mountains of Colorado by her soon-to-be ex-husband. Carolyn never made it to the spa....
8) Housekeeping
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English
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"Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
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Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
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English
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Twelve-year-old Joshua is an orphan who lives in an unusual family where his eighteen-year-old aunt also acts as his mother
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt...
12) Chasing Redbird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky
13) A world away
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Eliza, an Amish girl, goes to work for an "English" family as a nanny to two young children, and must then choose between two entirely different ways of life
14) Tending to Grace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Cornelia, a high school student, is forced to confront the truth about herself and her mother after her mom runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her in the care of an eccentric aunt.
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English
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold
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Judy Moody volume 10
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun
18) The forgotten
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John Puller novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy
19) A willing murder
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English
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"A story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequences...Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone...
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English
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Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both family and community.
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