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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Language
English
Description
A young woman living on a remote Missouri farm and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and ailing grandmother, Katie Benson seeks inspiration in dealing with the vicissitudes of life in the pages of her grandmother's journal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
10) No way out
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to remember the accident that left her in a coma and led to her boyfriend's disappearance, video game developer Ellie Bowman starts over in rural Missouri, before an inexplicable reunion threatens everything she has rebuilt.
12) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.
13) Torn away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown of Elizabeth, Missouri, sixteen-year-old Jersey Cameron struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Katy Collins buys a B & B on eBay, she, her young son, and her sister Emma arrive in the Ozarks only to discover that B & B actually stands for Bait and BBQ, and, while learning all about worms, they get the place up and running smoothly until Katy's troublemaking ex-husband arrives.
Author
Series
Four seasons tetralogy volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After being married for nearly fifty years, the contented life that Charlie and Esther Moore have built together begins to crumble, and as Esther's declining health begins to shatter their reverie, the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken to pull their marriage out of winter.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After returning to their childhood home for a funeral, the Hemingway sisters bond with one another, as they learn the truth about what happened to their mother and younger sister and reveal secrets about their own lives.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When her beloved cousin goes missing after a May Day celebration, sixteen-year-old Ivy discovers that both her cousin and her hometown in the Missouri Ozarks are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
Author
Series
Fairy Godmothers Inc volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Novelist Juniper Blossom has romance down to a science in her bestselling books, but she knows a happy ending looks different for everyone. Preparing to visit her meddling grandmothers in Ever After, Missouri, she plans to stop their interfering in her life by convincing her friend Tomas Rivera to be her faux fiance. A divorce attorney, Tomas is proud of Juniper's authorial success, but his career is proof enough that true love is a real fairy tale....
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