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1521) Over the river
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
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.
1522) Payback time
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls was once a haven for unwed mothers. Now it is a bed-and-breakfast that Ruby runs with her daugher Jill. When Jill's fourteen-year-old daughter searches for the identity of her father, she sets in motion events that will test the bonds of the family. And then Jill agrees to host the wake of the town matriarch. But the convergence of people and memories reveals a shocking family secret.
1525) Heir of uncertain magic
Author
Series
Whimbrel House volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Merritt deals with his burgeoning powers that give him access to the thoughts of all living creatures while his friend and former housekeeper considers a high-level position, in the second novel of the series following Keeper of Enchanted Rooms.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
High school senior Magdalena Herrera already has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend, Nessa, forces her to face hersecrets.
1528) OF JADE AND DRAGONS
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she discusses herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.
1530) The art of being normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
David Piper, always an outsider, forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's deepest secret gets out, that he wants to be a girl, things get very messy for both of them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Horse Ltd
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Brutally honest, Mercedes Stockdale offers little "mercy" when it comes to dealing with the men of Lochmoor Glen. She has no qualms about putting Hiram McDonnally in his place, and then setting her sights on her hero, Henry McTavish. Met with several roadblocks, including their conflicting social statuses and Miss Trina Dunmore, Mercy is unwavering in each attempt to capture Tavy's heart.
1532) Defender
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tyne and her boyfriend Stick investigate a decades-old murder after she finds the body of a girl in the basement wall of her apartment building.
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A bright June day. A split-second distraction. A family forever changed. Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart, Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in a single turn of fate, that entire world comes crashing down and everything that she thought she knew changes. Maura must learn to move forward with the weight of grief and the crushing...
Author
Series
The Duke's men volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While trying to ensure that his half-brother George can never ruin his life again, investigator Tristan Bonnaud, one of the Duke's Men, is hired by Lady Zoe Keane to find a gypsy woman who knows all of her family's secrets.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.
1537) The wicked widow
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two intertwined stories--one set in 1924 and featuring Geneva "Gin" Kelly and another set in 1998 featuring Ella Dommerich--follow these two determined women as they uncover long-buried secrets and unsettle New York City's richest families.
1538) The prince of spies
Author
Series
Hope and glory volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Luke Delacroix's hidden past as a spy has him carrying out an ambitious agenda-thwarting the reelection of his only real enemy. But trouble begins when he falls for Marianne Magruder, the congressman's daughter. Can their newfound love survive a political firestorm, or will three generations of family rivalry drive them apart forever?"--
Author
Series
Theodora Hendrix volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Theodora's monster foster family broke the rules when they chose to raise her, and when someone threatens to divulge their secret, she must find the culprit to protect their way of life.
1540) LOUDER THAN WORDS
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, she sees it as a chance to start over and get away from what happened at her old school--but soon an anonymous podcast begins revealing humiliating secrets about the other students, and threatening to expose Jordyn's secret.
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