Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"A life hanging in the balance…a family torn apart—New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. On an icy winter night, a terrible accident forces a family divided to come together and make a fateful decision. Cara, once protected by her father, Luke, is tormented by a secret that nobody knows. Her brother, Edward, has secrets of his own. He has kept them hidden, but now...
3) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
6) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't...
Author
Series
Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry and his sister Catherine face obstacles as they try to bring others to God.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years earlier, a young lawyer investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.
10) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
11) Crow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Laia is determined to break into Kauf-the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison-and save her brother, whose knowledge of Serric steel is the key to the Scholars' future. And Elias is determined to stay by Laia's side...even if it means giving up his own chance at freedom
13) Back roads
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
14) Family history
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
16) Tooth and claw
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A tale of contention over love and money--among dragons.
17) Memory
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has...
20) Franny and Zooey
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1955-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request