Rachel Botchan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of her Amish parents and her separation from her siblings when she is sent from Michigan to Pennsylvania, Lena Rose Schwartz hopes to secure an engagement to her beau so that she can return home, before discovering other prospects and possibilities in Lancaster County.
Author
Series
Amish Beginnings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young Amish woman fends off the matchmaking efforts of her fellow passengers on the Charming Nancy--the ship that brought the first wave of Amish to America in 1737"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bishop's family volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Abigail Stoltzfus is called to Stoney Ridge to find a match, she finds that Dane Glick is the only eligible bachelor, who happens to be a member of a family on the opposite side of an escalating church conflict.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
You Don't Know Her Name. The World Remembers Only Her Greatest Friend: Cleopatra. Raised together in the Alexandrian palace, Chava, the Hebrew daughter of the royal tutor, and Urbi, an Egyptian princess, become as close as sisters—and rivals with their dreams of greatness. When Urbi unexpectedly ascends the throne as Queen Cleopatra, Chava believes their bond is strong enough to survive. But absolute power has a way of changing everything. The ultimate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
To Be Silent Would Be to Deny Their God, To Defy Would Bring the Wrath of the King. Seeking quiet and safety after a hard childhood, Leah marries Judah, a strong and gentle man, and for the first time in her life Leah believes she'll have peace. But the very nation Judah was named for has been conquered by a cruel king, who decrees that all Jews are to conform to Syrian laws or risk death for following the laws of Moses. Judah's father resists the...
Author
Series
Amish Beginnings volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
As the Amish settle in America, Tessa wishes Hans would notice her. When tragedy strikes—close to home and close to her heart—she discovers the cost of true love. Beautiful and winsome, Betsy Zook never questioned her family's rigid expectations, nor those of devoted Hans, but then she never had to. Not until the night when she's taken captive in a surprise Indian raid. During her captivity, Betsy faces brutality and hardship, but also unexpected...
11) Stone Angel
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this emotionally rich story, a little girl and her family live happily in Paris until Nazi soldiers arrive druing World War II. She and her family must flee or risk being sent to a concentration camp, so they run into the woods, where they meet resistance fighters. But they're still not safe. They must cross tall mountains and sail in a rickety boat to England. Yet the whole time they're struggling to survive, the little girl thinks of the stone...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class has plans for you. They're going to speak up and work together to save their school. Laura Shovan's engaging novel is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. The students grow up and move on in this big-hearted debut about...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
No one thought that MacTrump-Lord of MacTrump Towers, Son of New York-would ascend to the highest position in the kingdom. Yet with the help of his unhappy but dutiful wife Lady MacTrump, his clever daughter Dame Desdivanka, and his coterie of advisers, MacTrump is comfortably ensconced in the White Hold as President of the United Fiefdoms, free to make proclamations to his subjects through his favorite messenger, McTweet. The Democrati, mourning...