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1) The getaway
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation, but sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venemous creatures all threaten their vacation.
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
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English
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"Paul Tremblay's terrifying twist to the home invasion novel-inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures "Tremblay's personal best. It's that good." - Stephen King Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course...
5) French braid
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English
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"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
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Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
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English
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"Single mom Robyn Caldwell needs a new plan for her future. She has always put her family first. Now, with her kids grown, she yearns for a change. But what can she do when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won't even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a monumentally bad decision that could ruin everything? Take a vacation, of course. Press reset. When her great-aunt...
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor misfortunes leads the families farther and farther from the ship's safety.
"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families...
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English
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“Fans of Karen White and Susan Wiggs will savor Morgans pairing of a second-chance romance with an intense family drama.”Booklist, Starred Review “Emotional, riveting and uplifting. If youve got a sister, youve got to read this book!”Susan Mallery, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Jane Green meets Sophie Kinsella. Heartwarming, emotional, funny and real - I adored this book!”New York Times bestselling author, Jill Shalvis. When three...
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"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend...
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Series
Chicken Squad volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"When the Chicken Squad goes on a family vacation to a farm, there is a looming dark shadow that is pestering Sugar"--
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A playful follow-up to Mr. Postmouse's Rounds traces a family vacation for Mr. Postmouse, who embarks on a round-the-world tour by hot-air balloon, cruise ship, camel and other transportation methods, making deliveries along the way.
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Series
Princess Posey books volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
First-grader Posey is concerned that her spring vacation will be boring compared to her friends' travels, but her mother's plan to take each day as it comes turns out to be full of excitement.
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst comes a new women's fiction novel featuring three generations of Ferrari women who need to heal the broken pieces of their lives...and one trip of a lifetime through Italy. Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Features a young Arvid Janssen, who is now twelve, on the verge of his teenage years and beginning to understand more about the world and his place in it. Set over the course of a single formative summer, the novel captures a series of episodes from Arvid's long visit to his grandparents' home in Denmark. He rides his bike around town, befriends other children on the beach, fishes for plaice, and weathers misunderstandings with his mother and grandparents,...
19) Red Fox Road
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Publisher
Puffin Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. Her mom and dad are fighting because her dad is relying on GPS, while her mom wants to follow a (paper) map. When the GPS leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oilpan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can't help feeling a little excited, as she'd often imagined...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DE ANNE TYLER Uno de los libros másesperados del año según The Times, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Irish Times, entre otros. En la lista de más vendidos de The New York Times. «Si Anne Tyler no es la mejor escritora del mundo, ¿quién lo es?». BBC En 2010, Serena y James regresan a Baltimore desde Filadelfia, donde ella ha conocido a los padres de él y ha podido hacerse una idea del concepto tan distinto que ambos tienen...
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