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1) The highway
Author
Language
English
Description
When two girls disappear on a remote stretch of Montana road, former police investigator Cody Hoyt and his former rookie partner Cassie Dewell begin an investigation that will lead them into the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.
3) The redeemed
Author
Series
West Country trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away from life aboard a battlecruiser. Skimming through those West Country roads on her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies the expectations of her class and sex as she covertly studies to be a vet. In a world torn asunder by war, everything dances in flux:...
5) The cookcamp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
6) Dragon road
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
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.
8) Gunshot Road
Author
Series
Emily Tempest investigations volume 2
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Emily Tempest is appointed Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the Moonlight Downs station. Investigating the possible murder of an elderly geologist, she encounters Danny, an emotionally fragile Stonehouse mob teenager who is traumatized by the image of "poison flowing green." The terrain of Australia, a Japanese rock garden painter, a rash of unexplained illnesses and the implausibility of two elderly friends killing each other present Emily...
9) Cat at bat
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cat manages to help her team win a close baseball game.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A small blue truck finds his way out of a jam, with a little help from his friends.
"Beep! Beep! Meet Blue! Filled with truck sounds and animal noises, Little Blue Truck is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick-up—that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his...
11) The ghost road
Author
Series
Haunting of Derek Stone volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek can't claim to be a normal fourteen-year-old anymore. Not after what he discovered at the Red House. His role in the war against the dead is more pivotal--and more terrifying--than he could have imagined. And so it all comes down to this. The Rift between the worlds of the living and the dead has to be closed forever. It seems like an impossible task. And it rests squarely on the shoulders...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High's Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential. Going up against McKinley's cruel high school caste system and facing harsh criticism from everyone around him, Will becomes determined to prove them all wrong.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The road to matrimony is fraught with difficulties and even when Lydia Bennet is convinced that she has met the man of her dreams, complications arise. When Lydia is reunited with the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys for a grand ball at Netherfield Park, the shocking truth about her husband may just cause the greatest scandal of all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Depicts the life of Bo Mason and his family as they face a life of poverty and despair and struggle to survive during the Depression in the American Northwest.
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous...
Author
Series
Houston series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hailed as one of "the best novels ever set in America's fourth largest city" (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry's "comic genius, his ability to render a sense of landscape, and interior intellection tension" (Jim Harrison, New York Times Book Review). Desperate to break from the "mundane happiness" of Houston, budding writer Danny Deck hops in his...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In their small town of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1930, misfits Tru and Nelle strike up a friendship and find a mystery to solve when someone breaks into the drugstore and steals some candy and a fancy brooch.
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