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Winter Street Inn novels volume 3
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Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon....
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When his mother dies, thirty-eight-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.
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"An emotional homecoming brings hope and healing to three generations of women. The life Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn't so dreamy these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged mother, Juliet, has been seriously injured in a car accident, Liv has no choice but to pack up her life and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern California...
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The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes.Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his...
85) Angel sister
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Rosey Corner novels volume 1
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It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what the Merritts need?
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Boxcar children volume 8
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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A summer spent in doing light housekeeping in a lighthouse proves to be a happy and adventurous time for the Boxcar children, as well as for their neighbor, Larry Cook, who does not want any friends.
87) The Seeing Stone
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Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
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Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother saves dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
89) One family
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Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family. From veteran picture book author George Shannon and up-and-coming artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.
90) The Borrowers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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A family of miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans is forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
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After her sister Diana dies, Bev longs to provide a stable home for her fourteen-year-old daughter, Alabama. But between her commitment-phobic boyfriend and her precarious teaching position, Bev's life is already in upheaval without an unruly teenager around. Alabama sets out to find her late father's family and learns of the complicated history between her mother and aunt.
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Ramona Quimby volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Beezus Quimby tries very hard to be patient with her little sister, but four-year-old Ramona has the habit of doing the most unpredictable, annoying, embarrassing things in the world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young family learns to grow a garden, describing how they prepared the soil, watered their plants, dealt with the animals who invaded their garden, and how all their hard work finally paid off as they harvested vegetables and flowers.
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Ballantyne legacy volume 1
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On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania, determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman, and Liege endeavors to keep him. Silas has become interested in Liege's daughters, the gentle and faith-filled Eden and the clever and high-spirited Elspeth. If he chooses one, will the other's jealousy destroy their love?
95) Olive's ocean
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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On September 15, 2008, the world of Greenwich, Connecticut, is shaken. When the investment bank Weiss & Partners is shuttered, CEO Bob DAmico must fend off allegations of malfeasance, as well as the judgment and resentment of his community. As panic builds, five women in his life must scramble to negotiate power on their own terms and ask themselves what -if anything-is worth saving.In the aftermath of this collapse, Bob DAmicos teenage daughter Madison...
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Falling kingdoms volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Prince Magnus must choose between family and justice as his father, the cruel King Gaius, sets out to conquer all of Mytica by tracking down an ancient, storied magic known as the Kindred.
98) Chorus: a novel
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2022.
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"The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turn back and forth over time, from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances leading up to and beyond one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy. As they move into adulthood, the siblings assume various new roles:...
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Wishing Tree volume 1
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The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they’ve lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn’t been home since the end of the world’s shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the Christmas wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. In the spirit of the season, will they let go of past hurts and greet the...
100) The Round House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....