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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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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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Hanger's horsemen volume 1
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English
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"Ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads a band of mercenaries who defend the innocent, but when one of them nearly dies, they seek out help from Dr. Josephine Burkett. When Josephine's brother is abducted and she is caught in the crossfire, Matthew may have to sacrifice everything to save her"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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English
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Arriving in the ancient Byzantine city in the year 1273, Anna Zarides has only one mission: to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely about in society, using her skills as a physician to manoeuver close to the key players involved in her brother's fate.
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The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick...
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick...
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English
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Six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother, Victoria, and since that night, she has never again spoken a word. The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. Maggie Collins doesn't dare believe in love again, but she does believe in the magic of imagination. And when se meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate...
10) Fate's edge
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Series
Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 3
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English
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In the latest entry in Ilona Andrews's Edge series, Audrey Callahan is determined to stay on the straight and narrow--but when her brother gets into trouble, she takes on one last heist and finds herself matching wits with lawyer, gambler, thief, and spy Kaldar Mar.
11) O pioneers!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
12) Red country
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First Law World volume 3
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English
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Resolving to avenge the murders of her siblings, Shy South embarks on a dangerous journey with a pair of oxen and her cowardly stepfather to a frontier town gripped by gold fever and feuds before forging a precarious alliance with an infamous soldier of fortune and his feckless lawyer.
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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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
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"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...
15) Franny and Zooey
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1955-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.
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Practical magic novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The prequel to Alice Hoffman's PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep"--
From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Readers and critics alike raved over USA Today bestselling author Sally Thornes smash hit debut novel, The Hating Gamewhich sold in over 20 countries. Now shes back with an unforgettable romantic comedy about a twin sister and brother struggling over an inheritanceand the sexy best friend who comes between them.Crush (n.): a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey...
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Series
Charmed Amish life volume 1
Publisher
Avon Inspire, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
Shelley Shepard Gray's first book in her Charmed Amish Life series is set in the quaint Amish village of Charm, Ohio, and tells the stories of the Kinsinger siblings who are each struggling to find both forgiveness and love in the face of tragedy.
20) Snow day!
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After waking up to a snow day, a brother and sister enjoy winter activities with their friends.
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