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We were liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
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Series
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English
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"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Forced by their mother to spend years locked in the attic so that she could inherit the family fortune that would be denied her if it were known she had children, Carrie, Chris, and Cathy escape and plan their revenge.
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Series
Winter Street Inn novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning to prepare for Kevin and Isabelle's wedding, the Quinn family find themselves facing a powerful blizzard, holiday drama, and an emotional reunion.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It’s 1967, and for young Richard it’s a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family to his grandmother’s abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong—but when he’s run down by bullies at his new school, he meets...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s heralded best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited—a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that...
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English
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Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn't spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family's historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings...
11) The lies we told
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
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Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy left Maya cautious and timid, settling for a sedate medical practice with her husband, Adam, while Rebecca became the risk taker.
12) Dream on, Amber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Abandoned by her father at a young age, half-Japanese, half-Italian middle schooler Amber Miyamoto must dream up a way for her and her sister to make it on their own while making friends at her new school.
13) Someone to love
Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, Anna Snow finds an ally in the new earl's guardian, the Duke of Netherby.
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Llama Llama is preparing to go on his first vacation and plane ride with Mama Llama and Gram to visit Cousin Llama and his daughter, Libby Llama, where they live, on Sandy Island. It's a vacation of many ̀firsts for Llama Llama.
15) Perish: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This sweeping family saga about a Black Texan family, which spans decades and is told in alternate chapters, follows four members of the Turner clan as they, called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother, must decide who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame.
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Emma is upset to learn that her mother is dating, but not passing along a message about a cancelled date makes Emma feels worse.
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Language
English
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Description
To retrieve a beloved childhood treasure hidden in her old home, Effie breaks into Greenoaks during a huge party, and, while sneaking around the house, hears conversations that make her see her family in a new light—and wonder what she really came here to find.
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Language
English
Description
Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most.
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