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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Colleen is a master storyteller." —Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author
For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be . . . and the one place she must return.
With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so
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Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In the wake of her husband's presumed death, a young war bride makes a desperate choice to give her baby a better life. However, her choice will have unforeseen ramifications for more lives than she ever expected. The baby girl, named Kyle by her adoptive parents, grows up with no knowledge of her humble beginnings. When a heartbreaking loss pits Kyle against her high society mother, secrets from Kyle's past come to light. Suddenly, she finds herself...
3) The prodigal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Leah's older sister Sadie has returned home from Ohio and is working toward reintegrating herself into the church. Leah is estatic to have her home, and she's happy to see her young siblings grow up. But part of Leah wonders, and still aches, when she thinks of the long-lost love of her life, Jonas Mast. She is very surprised and cautiousley optimistic to hear about the prospect of his return. But what long-buried secrets will his homecoming bring...
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Rani Martin, Simon and Anna's only daughter, is a beautiful and spirited young woman living deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. She has plenty of ideas about the man she'll marry someday, but none of them could have prepared her for the return of Matthew Jackson. Matthew left Cades Cove as a child after his father's death. Now he's come back to build a new life for himself, and it's his dearest wish that Rani be a part of that life. But the...
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English
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Jennifer Chiaverini's popular Elm Creek Quilts series has been an international hit. The year is 1924. Elizabeth loves Elm Creek, but she's also dreamed of traveling the world. When her beloved Henry finally professes his love, he asks her to leave with him and move to a California ranch. Elizabeth must decide whether she can really leave her home behind forever. She may dream of travel, but she always envisioned herself ending up at Elm Creek.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A reluctant war hero returns home and encounters a new chance at love.No sooner has Shawn Collins returned home from the fighting in Europe than he is called upon to serve his country in another way-as a speaker on the war bond tour. While other men might jump at the chance to travel around the country with attractive Hollywood starlets, Shawn just wants to stay home with his son Patrick and his aging father, and grieve the loss of his wife in private....
7) First date
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Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Upperclassmen at Northwood Academy rarely date so Devon, a bored junior transfer student, persuades her friends Cassidy, Emma, Bryn, and Abby to form a club to help each other find dates for the Homecoming Dance.
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
9) Homecoming
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Abandoned in a parking lot by their mother, who left them with a bag of sandwiches and the address of a distant great-aunt, Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy Tillerman embark on an arduous and eventful journey.
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English
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"Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with a grand plan--to take Camp Kicking Moose to the next level. Her dream starts to unravel when she discovers Moose Manor's kitchen has been badly remodeled by her sister, Cam, who doesn't know how to cook. Added to that blow is the cold shoulder given by her best friend, Artie Lotosky, now a doctor to the unbridged Maine islands. As old wounds are opened, Blaine starts to wonder if she made a mistake...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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What does it mean to do wrong, when no one punishes you? A smart and unflinching look at friendship, the nature of entitlement, and growing up in the heartland.Paige Sheridan has the perfect life. She's pretty, rich, and popular, and her spot on the homecoming court is practically guaranteed. But when a night of partying ends in an it-could-have-been-so-much worse crash, everything changes. Her best friends start ignoring her, her boyfriend grows...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Varsity Tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before-before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.As Kirkus said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John...
15) A patchwork past
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Series
Plain patterns volume 2
Language
English
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"When wild child Sophie Deiner--the daughter of an Amish bishop--is forced to return to Nappanee, Indiana, quilt-shop owner Jane Berger is one of only a few who welcome her back. It's the last place she wants to be, but Sophie's recent illness requires that she recover for a while. As Sophie heals, she befriends a group of migrant workers and is appalled to learn of the wretched living conditions they're forced to endure. Sophie begins advocating...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela brings Cadie back to her childhood home. There, they are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie's memory than all her other years combined."--
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
Ellery has heard all about Echo Ridge. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen; only five years ago, a homecoming queen was killed. Now Ellery is living there, with a grandmother she barely knows. Whens someone declares open season on homecoming, another girl goes...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped-the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories (set in the world Munro has made her own: the countryside...
20) Salamandastron
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.
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