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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Richard Peck returns with a third tale starring his beloved and charming character, Grandma Dowdel. In 1958, a new family moves in next door to Grandma. As they get to know each other, Grandma becomes an essential part of this Methodist family. As the holiday season rolls in, they find comfort in each other and receive memorable gifts.
Author
Series
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1935, and ever since the big crash and her father's subsequent suicide, Henrietta Von Harmon has been left with the job of caring for her antagonistic mother and seven younger siblings. In desperation, Henrietta finally agrees to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall. Just as she's beginning to enjoy herself, however, the floor matron suddenly turns up dead. When the aloof Inspector Howard appears on the scene to investigate, he...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
5) Fire sale
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A conscience can weigh a PI down more than the heaviest firearm—and get her into more trouble too. It’s that nagging conscience that makes V. I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls’ basketball team at her South Chicago alma mater—which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V. I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad. But conscience seems to be in short...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
"When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago. The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1970, fourteen-year-old Shoshanna, six-year-old Mara, and their mother escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune run by their tyrranical and abusive father, but after finding peace and stability at Avery Elliot's farm, their mother's crippling depression returns.
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Series
Language
English
Description
They say blood is thicker than water. Private eye V. I. Warshawski has her doubts, especially when it comes to the bad blood between her and her great-aunt Rosa. But when the old lady reaches out, V. I. answers the call. The good friars at St. Albertus Magnus Priory, Rosa's long-time employers, have cashed in on valuable securities from their safe...only to discover they were counterfeits. Suspended under a cloud of suspicion, Rosa wants V. I. to...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Series
Rachel Savernake Golden Age mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of an intriguing and bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, judge'sdaughter Rachel Savernake. Thank goodness she did, because barely a week later Nell disappears, and Rachel is left to put together the pieces of the puzzle. qLooking for answers, Rachel travels to...
12) Meet the beast
Author
Series
Beast friends forever volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Is there a monster living under your bed? Meet Otto! Zeke and Hannah's new best friend--even if he is a beast! It's up to Zeke and his sister to keep this mini-monster out of their candy, out of their school...and out of trouble! Will they be able to keep him a secret?..."--P. [4] of cover.
13) The weather man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
14) The robot ransom
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 147
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Henry and Jessies middle school robotics team is going to the regional competition! But it seems like someone doesnt want their team to compete. Can the Aldens use their sleuthing skills and what theyve learned about robotics to find the culprit and save the day?
Jessie and Henry's robotics team is competing in a big tournament. But when their robot is stolen, the Aldens have a high-tech mystery to decode!
16) Surprise Island
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all. 1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle;...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
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