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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and A Snicker of Magic will be swept away by Cindy Baldwins debut middle grade about a girl coming to terms with her mothers mental illness. When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that its happening againthat the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is back....
3) The dry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
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