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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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English
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"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
3) Savvy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 2009.
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
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Language
English
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Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it's easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic Wintermoon ski trip. But with this year's trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier's adult children find themselves reuniting in the family home without their parents for the first time...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Girl Last Seen comes a psychological thriller that delivers Nina Laurin's signature "heart-stopping" suspense (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author).
"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..."
I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size.
It's a shock that makes my breath catch....
"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..."
I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size.
It's a shock that makes my breath catch....
6) 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
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 3
Language
English
Description
Having left the military, Dakota Jones is at a crossroads in his life. With his elder brother and youngest sister happily settled in Sullivan's Crossing, he shows up hoping to clear his head before moving on to his next adventure. But, like every visitor to the Crossing, he's immediately drawn to the down-to-earth people and the seemingly simple way of life. Dakota is unprepared for how quickly things get complicated.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Further adventures of first-grader Jake "the Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "the Great One," include a trip to the beach with Grandma, to a county fair with Aunt Diana, and to a mall with Dad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundswood/Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stella's little brother Sam wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some.
So begins another adventure in the Stella and Sam series about the irrepressible red-head, and her slightly apprehensive little brother.
12) Jake and Lily
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes
13) Starters
Author
Series
Starters volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To support herself and her younger brother in a world decimated by a viral outbreak , sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"While some little girls like to pretend to be mommies, Olivia goes a step further by taking on not just one but TWO pet babies--and her little brother. In the end, Olivia learns that it's a really tough job to be a mommy and it's way more fun to be a kid."
17) The lemonade war
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
18) Titanic crossing
Author
Publisher
Dial/Scholastic Apple
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking.
19) All adults here
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Language
English
Description
"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
20) Cured
Author
Series
Stung novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now cured, Fiona Tarsis and her twin, Jonah, set out to find their mother with the help of Bowen and former neighbor Jacqui, planning to spread the cure along the way, but raiders will do anything to stop them and new ally Kevin may have ties to those raiders.
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