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61) Cold Sassy tree
Author
Series
Cold Sassy series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson, in a new edition of the classic novel set against the backdrop of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Sammy loves Halloween: the candy, the pumpkins, the scares. So when he gets the chance to be in charge of the familys next haunted house, he gets right to workeven though its only November. Suddenly Sammys inventions are scare-ifying his family day and night, even on Christmas and Easter! Sammy knows hes on his way to making a spooktacular haunted house, but his family isnt so sure they can take a full year of his tricks
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets...
Author
Language
English
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"It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been sold. When Krista decides to throw a grand "house cooling"...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone loves family reunions. Well everyone except Russell, whose family of big, brawny, and boisterous wrestlers has him on the run in this vibrant celebration of what it means to be a family. When the Relatives Came meets Wrestlemania in debut author Cindy Chambers Johnsons rollicking picture book about a family reunion with a most colorful cast of charactersfrom Lorry and Tory (the Twin Tornadoes) to Cousin Cora “The Cleaner” to Uncle “el...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.
"In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from...
68) Two is enough
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the many ways that two can be the perfect number for a family with the love, support, and comfort that every child needs.
69) Robots go wild!
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In book two of the House of Robots series, it's 'bot brains versus 'bot brawn in an all-out war! Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez and his "bro-bot" E are making new friends every day as E works as his bedridden sister Maddie's school proxy. But disaster strikes when E malfunctions just in time to be upstaged by the super-cool new robot on the block-and loses his ability to help Maddie. Now it's up to Sammy to figure out what's wrong with E and save his family!...
70) Homecoming
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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The iconic start to the timeless, Newbery-winning series from Cynthia Voigt is repackaged with a fresh new look. "Its still true." Thats the first thing James Tillerman says to his older sister, Dicey, every morning. Its still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillermans in a mall parking lot somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. Its still true that they have to find their own way to Great-aunt Cillas house in Bridgeport. Its still true...
71) Noisy Nora
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door--and the house goes strangely silent--that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all."A wonderful story."
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In this heartwarming picture book, a big sister realizes that her little sister, Jackie, doesn't like dresses or fairies-she likes ties and bugs! Will she and her family be able to accept that Jackie identifies more as "Jack"? Susan thinks her little sister Jackie has the best giggle! She can't wait for Jackie to get older so they can do all sorts of things like play forest fairies and be explorers together. But as Jackie grows, she doesn't want to...
76) Save the date
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
“The cinema-worthy rom-com of your summer reading dreams.” Bustle. Father of the Bride meets Sixteen Candles in the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson. Charlie Grants older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie cant waitfor the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.“Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.”The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mothers...
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