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481) A dash of trouble
Author
Series
Love sugar magic volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.
482) Ghost blows a kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sent down to Earth by Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions, ghost Bailey Ruth breaks the rules of Earthly Visitation by intervening in a drowning.
483) Fruits basket: 10
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 10
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Toru and the Sohmas spend time at the Sohma's summerhous. Alas, it's not all fun in the sun on this little trip. Akito pays a surprise visit, causing a commotion for the rest of the family. Shigure takes a stroll down memory lane with an old friend, remembering the days when Hatori wasn't so aloof. Meanwhile, Tohru begins to wonder: what must life be like for the loved ones of a cursed member of the Sohma family? Can life with this family truly be...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
486) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue to help her track...
487) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
488) Cinders & sapphires
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light.
489) The Memory Trees
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Now sixteen, Sorrow's memories of her childhood in Vermont are maddeningly hazy. She returns to the orchard for the summer, determined to learn more about her troubled childhood and the family she left eight years ago. But it soon becomes clear that some of her questions have difficult, even dangerous, answers.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a young girl's brutal murder in the woods near an abandoned Pennsylvania steel mill, suspicions surround an escapee from a local biotech facility, a cold-blooded aristocrat and young gypsy who claims to be a werewolf, two of whom reluctantly team up to prove their innocence.
491) Far from the tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovers that she is the middle child in her biological family after she gives up her own child for adoption, and she struggles to bond with her stoic older brother and outspoken younger sister.
492) All my secrets
Author
Series
Gilded age volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
493) The Blackwoods
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When someone else lays claim to the cottage where he spent his childhood summers, Hugh, a historian, finds this person’s revelation unraveling a secret—a betrayal, a disappearance and an unstoppable acted of violence—that has impacted the Italian village of Valetto across generations.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how a summer job at a Louisiana law firm and the case of a convicted murderer and child molester changed the author's views about the death penalty and forced her to confront traumatic secrets in her own family.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When ghoulish creatures kill twelve-year-old Asha's guardian, her dying words launch Asha on a quest to stop an ancient evil, and along the way, she uncovers shocking secrets about the family she never knew and begins to find her place in the world as she discovers her own untapped powers.
497) An Irish hostage
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
British World War I nurse Bess Crawford travels to Ireland for her best friend’s wedding and unravels a dark, deceptive plot when the bridegroom goes missing.
498) And she was
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed.
Author
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.
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