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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
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"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
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"For sisters Samantha and Ella Mitchell, Christmas is their most precious time of the year. But this year, they'll be buying presents for the most unexpected guest of all--their mother. It's been five years since they last saw each other. But when their mom calls out of the blue, Samantha and Ella cautiously agree to spend Christmas all together in the beautiful Scottish Highlands... Gayle Mitchell is at the top of her career, but her success has...
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2020.
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"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...
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[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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From the New York Times bestselling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homeless shelter. As their friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyrell confront a new housing policy that puts homeless families in danger. It's June's first day at Huey...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
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September, 1811. Someone is slaying the wealth young sons of London's prominent familes, butchered and with objects stuffed in their mouths. St. Cyr soon finds a connection between the killer's calling card and a John Donne poem.
8) Sugar daddy
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Chronicle of Liberty Jones's rise from the trailer park to life in a Texas mansion. The daughter of a Hispanic father and a white mother, Liberty pines for the hunky bad boy Hardy Cates while mom Diana has another daughter, Carrington, and scores the occasional windfall to keep the famil afloat.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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It is the summer of 1925: Emily Stewart and her brother, Michael, are thirteen-year-old twins - privileged, precocious, and wandering aimlessly around their famil's Philadelphia estate. Emily spends her days populating the solitary grounds with characters and creatures from her imagination, wondering about her father, who died in World War I, and his friends who seems to have an unusually close relationship with her mother. She is curious about the...
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Families of honor volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
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When her train breaks down on the way to take care of her ailing cousin, Lucy Troyer finds the spark she was looking for all her life when she bands together with the only Amish person on the train--the dashing Calvin Weaver--to find a place to stay for the night.
13) Race to Space
Pub. Date
2004
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A top NASA scientist is too involved in the race to space to pay much attention to his young son Billy, Billy finds refuge from his loneliness when he befriends a chimp being trained for space flight.. When billy discovers a plot to sabotage the chimp's flight, he's forced to go to hisfather for help. to save the chimp, Billy and his father will have to learn to work together.
15) The Family Man
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Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
16) Hooky
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Hooky volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Dani and Dorian Wytte have been through everything together—including joining forces with trouble maker Nico, Princess Monica, and golden boy Mark to sneak into the witch's sabbath, spring hostages from prison, and defend the castle when it was attacked by witches. With witches like their parents out for power and blood and non-magical people increasingly threatened by them, Dani and Dorian don't know whose side they're on . . .or if anyone's on...
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2011
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Attorney Claudia is focused entirely on her career. She is about to miss the family get-together at Thanksgiving when a mysterious force whisks her into an alternate reality that shows her what life would be like if she married a husband and had children instead of putting her job first.
Pub. Date
2021
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The adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl: Max dreams of a world far away from his own called Planet Drool. One day the heroes of Planet Drool, Shark Boy and Lava Girl, materialize on earth needing Max's help. All is not well in his dream world, an alien intelligence threatens his dream planet. Max takes off on a wild and dangerous journey with Shark Boy and Lava Girl to save Planet Drool.
Dora and the lost city of gold: Having spent most of her life...