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41) Emory's gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life
42) Gilgamesh
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio Books
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Gilgamesh is a rich, spare, and evocative novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, a debut that marks the emergence of a world-class talent. It is 1937, and the modern world is waiting to erupt. On a farm in rural Australia, seventeen-year-old Edith lives with her mother and her sister, Frances. One afternoon two men, her English cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram, arrive-taking the long way home from...
43) Bette
Author
Series
Women of Ivy Manor volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth “Bette” Leigh Black comes of age in the years before World War II. Although money is scarce in the aftermath of the Depression, her home life is happy and filled with love, and Bette dreams of one day having her own family. But as the war taints their sheltered world, Bette begins to realize life is sometimes cruel—and not everyone has the happiness she does. Eagerly and secretly, she becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage, even though...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the summer of 1985, and on the lush fairways and immaculate greens of the exclusive Fox Chase Country Club in suburban Delaware. Timmy Price is pure. His fluid, powerful golf swing inspires awe among the adult membership and envy among his teenage peers, and under the tutelage of the enigmatic guru Foster Pearse, he is beginning to develop a complete game that will soon make him Junior Champion of the state. But when his self-made father...
46) Hometown legend
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In Athens City, Alabama, hard times have driven the town to desperation. But with the return of an old friend, the town's football team might be able to bring back the glory.
47) Adelaide Piper
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Beth Webb Hart delivers a compelling faith-based novel that highlights a small-town girl's coming-of-age journey through her college years. A precocious and idealistic poet, Adelaide Piper can't wait to escape her tiny, South Carolina mill town for the freedoms of a prestigious, far-away university. But she's unprepared for the party school reality that soon leaves her devastated, demoralized, and desolate. And then she remembers the "Jesus freak"...
50) Celeste
Author
Series
Gemini series volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a tragic accident claims the life of her twin brother, Noble, Celeste is forced to cut her hair, wear boys' clothing, and take on Noble's identity by her grieving and unstable mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstitions
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