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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters determined to be each other's family find scandal under the bright lights of Hollywood and take a trip to a wealthy Long Island carriage house before a twist of fate separates superstar Iris from her sidekick and sister, Eva, in a novel spanning three decades spent seeing the people you love through good times and bad in America.
Author
Series
Men of the Sisterhood volume 4
Language
English
Description
When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
5) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As mysterious circumstances bring Giuseppe, Frederick, and Hannah together, their lives soon interlock like the turning gears in a clock and they realize that each one holds a key to solving the others' mysteries.
8) Love, Aubrey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
10) Street dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present.
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm.
Now the hunt is on for the mother. Armed with advice...
11) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
12) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
13) Angel sister
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what the Merritts need?
16) Petal's problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The end of May makes Petal, the sixth sister, nervous for the month of June--her month--to begin, but the Huit octuplets have a wedding to look forward to, the Petes, and the cats in Paris.
17) Marcia's madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs. Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise...
19) Not her daughter
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a struggling mother loses her five-year-old daughter to a kidnapper, two women and one girl will find their loyalties and affections tested.
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