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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love
Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his...
Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his...
Author
Language
English
Description
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point in Victoria's life.
5) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A married Nigerian couple must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enjoying an idyllic life with their adopted four-year-old son Joey in a small town outside Atlanta, Jack and Molly Campbell are stunned when Joey's biological father, recently released from prison, demands the return of his son, forcing the grieving Campbells into a potentially desperate situation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discovering a speech-disabled boy asleep on their porch, young couple John and Marta forge a loving bond with the child and come to think of him as their own while wondering about his mysterious past and enjoying the world through his eyes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she’s separated from her mother.
10) Dear child
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a kidnapping victim who struggles to escape her abductor and prove her identity to doubting relatives 14 years after her disappearance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.
There is rarely a dull moment in the life of Precious Ramotswe,
13) Too many toys
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although he finally agrees that he has too many toys and needs to give them away, there is one toy that Spencer absolutely cannot part with.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With both joy and fear, seventeen-year-old Ariel begins to explore her sexuality, while living with her controlling, abusive father who has told Ariel that her mother deserted her years ago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
For fans of Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish and Katherine Applegate’s Crenshaw comes the humorous and heart aching story of one girl’s struggle to keep hope alive for her and her younger sister in Sunny Pines Trailer Park.
Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park.
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Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park.
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20) Say what?
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In simple rhyming verse, explores the meaning of sounds exchanged between animal parents and their offspring.
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