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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
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Series
Mason novels volume 1
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English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
44) The tender years
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Series
Prairie Legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Heartwarming Return to the Legacy of Marty and Clark Davis From the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series... Twenty years have passed since youngest daughter Belinda's story in Love Finds a Home. Marty and Clark's spiritual heritage has been lovingly passed on to their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And now beloved granddaughter Virginia faces the test of her young life. Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood,...
45) The cold nowhere
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Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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When he finds the daughter of a woman he failed to protect from a violent husband years ago hiding out in his lakeside cottage, Duluth PD Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is driven by guilt and duty to help her.
46) Zoe's tale
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Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union
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Diary of a teenage girl. Chloe volume 3
Diary of a Teenage Girl Chloe
Diary of a teenage girl.Chloe volume Bk. no. 3
Diary of a Teenage Girl Chloe
Diary of a teenage girl.Chloe volume Bk. no. 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After signing a contract with a major recording company, Chloe, Allie, and Laura set off on tour as the opening act for only the most popular Christian band in the country, Iron Cross. Allie's mom and little brother add yet more craziness to life on the road
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English
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"Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...
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English
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It is 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, a mental institution known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses the cascading events leading up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life
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Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 6
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English
Description
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory gets involved in a vast conspiracy of murder and managed health care when he is called to consult on the case of an apparent suicide attempt by fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait, a girl whose infant stepsister is dying of a rare heart disease.
53) Swimming
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English
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Born in a landlocked town in the center of Kansas, Pip is tall, flat, smart, funny, and supernaturally buoyant. On land, she has her share of troubles: an agoraphobic mother, a lost father, and a school full of nuns who just want her to sit still. But in the water, Pip is unstoppable. Swimming her way from a small Midwestern team to the Barcelona Olympics, Pip’s journey is the story of a young girl with an unsinkable spirit, struggling to stay...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
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English
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"People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
56) The gilded ones
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.
57) My soul to keep
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Series
Soul screamers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Kaylee has one addiction: her boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them. Until something does: Demon Breath, the Netherworld kind that really can kill you. Somehow the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world. But how? Kaylee and Nash have to cut off the source and protect their friends--one of whom is already hooked
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood thought that she and her best friend Evie Verver shared everything, but when Evie disappears from their suburban Midwestern community, Lizzie's search uncovers secrets and lies that make her wonder if she knew her friend at all
60) Enclave
Author
Series
Razorland volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong-- and dangerous
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