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2) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility much like Maggie Hughes parents. Maggies English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that dont include marriage to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way “Queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story.”٬٢٠١٤؛Sara Nović, author of True Biz The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. It’s the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned...
5) Kim
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Language
English
Description
Fraternizing with a horse trader who doubles as an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service, helping a Tibetan lama search for a lost river, touring a mystical, magical land that is the shining jewel in the British crown are all in a day's work for Kimball O'Hara, the sly adventurous waif known as Kim.
The adventures of the orphaned Kim as he goes from living from hand to mouth on the streets of Lahore to becoming the guide and protector of a Tibetan...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Opening the door into the innermost places of the heart, The Secret Garden is a timeless classic that has left generations of readers with warm, lifelong memories of its magical charms. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen… So begins the famous opening of one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories. First published in 1911, this is...
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