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Author
Series
Summerhouse novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
What if a woman could go back to the beginning and rethink her choices for love and life? When Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott first met, they were in their early 20s and the world lay before them with its infinite possibilities. Now that they're about to turn 40, they reunite for a weekend at a summerhouse in Maine where they share the details of their lives during the past 20 years. Each woman has serious doubts and questions...
4) Ruby Tuesday
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The 1988 World Series win by the Los Angeles Dodgers sets off a chain of life-changing events for thirteen-year-old Ruby Tuesday as she travels to Las Vegas and learns some surprising truths about her family members and their careers as gamblers and musicians. Plenty of girls have trouble relating to their parents. Few have to turn to a dictionary for help. Ruby Tuesday Sweet keeps a battered webster's by her side -- but when her dad tunes in to...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"From Pura Belpré Honoree and Emmy-award winning actor Sonia Manzano--best known as "Maria" from Sesame Street--comes the expansive and timeless story of four children who must carve out a path for themselves in the wake of Fidel Castro's rise to power. Fifteen-time Emmy Award winner and Pura Belpre honoree Sonia Manzano examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. In the wake of a new regime...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue. Intrigue and danger increase as Princess Kazunomiya's once-sheltered life in nineteenth-century Japan changes, in Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's latest addition to The Royal Diaries series. Kazunomiya, along with her royal family, is thought to be...
7) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction-a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly "parties of interest" to the government tell their stories. A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel--based on true events--of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post)... It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's cultural leaders following...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It’s been several months since the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, and the routine of daily life in Wolf Hollow has slowly returned. But for Annabelle McBride it’s hard to move forward and make peace with what feels like threadbare justice. Newly warm summer days are about to bring a jolt of change on the winds of a powerful storm. In its wake, the search for her brother’s missing dog will set Annabelle on a new path...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From a writer who spent twenty-five years working at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comes a sly and stylish novel - remarkably told through museum wall labels - about a twentieth-century woman who transforms herself from a precious object into an unforgettable protagonist"--
"A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a 20th-century woman who transforms herself from a precious object into an unforgettable...
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