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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Angel's View Ranch has always been special to Annelise McCade. Once upon a time, it was her family's land, until her grandfather sold it to billionaire Wallace Sheridan. Now employed as the live-in caretaker, Annie is just trying to make it through the holidays with both her sanity and her niece's and nephew's faith in the magic of Christmas intact. The six-year-old twins recently lost their mother, so Annie tells herself it wouldn't be a problem...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
6) Ella's wish
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella Yoder has moved into her dream house. In the stillness of the great house, she ponders her options. How is she to survive on her own? How will she ever forget Aden? What is to become of her? Two would-be suitors soon make their intentions known, but Ella is unsure of her feelings. As she agrees to care for Preacher Stutzman's three motherless girls, Ella's heart is touched by their love for her. Can God speak through the love of a child?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A second season of fun and laughter as the girls keep growing up and the grownups try to keep up! Relive D.J.'s first year in junior high, Stephanie's first year of school without her big sister, and Michelle's toddler antics. Includes all 22 episodes.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the disappearance of her mother and the death of her brother, a girl builds her life around her father's hunting dogs on their Charleston-area plantation, but finds her world changing when a rebellious debutante arrives.
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...
15) Tideland
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to live in a rural farmhouse with her father. She tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother. Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with her life change, but the result is her increasingly odd behavior. Jeliza-Rose begins to communicate with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season. Watch as the girls graduate to the next grade level, Stephanie has to wear glasses for the first time, Steve Urkel drops by, and Jesse and Rebecca get married after some hilarious mishaps.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
There are two new additions to the Tanner family and tons of laughs! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season. Watch as Danny is bachelor of the month; DJ learns how to drive; Michelle turns five; and Becky and Jesse have twins!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Join the Tanners' household for a third season full of fun and laughter as the girls keep growing up and grownups try to keep up! Michelle starts preschool, Stephanie is the only Tanner left in elementary school, and D.J. makes the big move to junior high, an exciting but scary new world of boys.
Author
Series
Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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