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Mitford years volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Mitford, a small southern village, is changing. Father Tim has finally married his neighbor Cynthia and as they begin to settle in, they struggle with new sleeping arrangements for Father Tim's sofa-sized dog, Cynthia's urge to decorate the rectory Italian-villa-style, and the growing pains of the "thrown-away" boy who's become like a son to Father Tim. Filled with heartwarming characters and hilarious moments, Mitford is the little town that readers...
2) Plainsong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The interwoven lives of a community in Colorado. The characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant. The novel describes the girl's impact on their lives, both men being bachelors.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully crafted second novel in the Mitford series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon delivers a love story that's both heartwarming and hilarious.
Father Tim—Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor—is in need of divine intervention. His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into...
Father Tim—Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor—is in need of divine intervention. His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into...
4) Joyland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
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Hope is hard to come by in the hard-luck town of Willow Creek. Sam Pickett and five young men are about to change that.
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. There's a spirit that endures in Willow Creek, Montana. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Where the Heat Is - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.
In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize-- winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
10) At risk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Amanda dreams of becoming a great gymnast but when a sudden tragedy consumes her entire world, she must draw on her unusual strength and courage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It's the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to the big city of Atlanta. And when, with...
13) The painted drum
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.
"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see-to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road that leads to the house where a girl named Anne grew up, Green Gables, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea. In this second volume of heartwarming tales a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal ... a ghostly appearance in a garden leads a woman to the fulfillment of her youthful dreams ... a young girl risks losing her mother to find the father she...
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly,...
16) Rumble fish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
17) Vinegar Hill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless...
19) Milo Talon
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Milo Talon takes a job searching for the missing granddaughter and heir of a wealthy man.
20) Down river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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The New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning novel with from an author whose "prose is like Raymond Chandler's, angular and hard" (Entertainment Weekly).
Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York City trying to erase his worst memories and the scorn and abandonment of his family. Then a phone call from his best friend awakens in him a torrent of emotion and pain. Having left North Carolina and its red
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