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Author
Series
Bichitos curiosos volume 28
Publisher
Blume
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Ursula the dragonfly lives alone in the middle of the pond--and likes it that way--until Amancio Betracio, the frog, makes his presence known.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"For years it's been Andy Green's job to stump students nationwide by coming up with the wrong answers for their multiple-choice tests. Recently, however, his own life has become overwhelmed by wrong choices. When a love affair is mysteriously ended by a Post-it note and followed up by a random street assault, Andy locks himself in his Hell's Kitchen apartment. In solitude, he thinks, he might be able to get a grip on his life. But when he is forced...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest, most...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan." That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island, the comforting tradition that its summer dwellers have lived by for over half a century. But in the summer of 1948, after a world war has claimed countless men - even those who came home - the time has come to deal with history's indelible scars. Helen Wadsworth's husband, Arthur, was declared missing in action during an OSS...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Amanda Coplin and Chris Bohjalian, In Wilderness is a suspenseful and literary love story--a daring and original novel about our fierce need for companionship and our enduring will to survive. In the winter of 1966, Katherine Reid receives a shattering diagnosis. Debilitated by a terminal and painful illness, Katherine moves to an isolated cabin deep in Georgia's Appalachian Mountains. There, with little more than a sleeping bag,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in the forest. In an effort to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston and a desire to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division, she hopes to find a kind of peace in this new life. As she writes in her journal, “Theres got to be a more honest, less divided way to...
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