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1) Summer house
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English
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BONUS: This edition contains a Summer House discussion guide and an excerpt from Nancy Thayer's Island Girls.
Thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche, running an organic gardening business on the island of Nantucket, thanks in large part to her spry grandmother Nona, who donated a portion of land on the family’s seaside compound to get Charlotte started. Though Charlotte’s skill with...
Thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche, running an organic gardening business on the island of Nantucket, thanks in large part to her spry grandmother Nona, who donated a portion of land on the family’s seaside compound to get Charlotte started. Though Charlotte’s skill with...
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English
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"Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what...
5) Ferris
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Newbery honor book : 2004
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
10) Love, Aubrey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
11) Emily's tiger
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Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emily always lets her inner tiger roar when things do not go her way until her grandmother shows her how to turn her angry tiger into a happy one.
12) Wedding ring
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While helping to restore the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Tessa MacCrae reevaluates her marriage and discovers an old wedding-ring quilt that holds the key to forgiveness, hope, and healing.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Nestled in the Chesapeake Bay, Brodie Island is charming, remote, and slow to change. For three hundred years, Abby Brodie's farming family has prospered there. Now, years after leaving to make her way on her own terms, Abby is coming home to see her ailing grandmother, with her teenage daughter and a wealth of memories in tow. Yet as family members gather at the old farmhouse, Abby realizes this visit offers more than a chance to say goodbye. After...
15) The giant hug
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Owen sends a real hug to his grandmother for her birthday he inadvertently brings cheer to the postal workers as they pass the hug along.
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Mission Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Everybody has a story. You listen to that story, Honeygirl, and your story will come find you." Her Grand Lady spoke these words when Abby was just a girl, spending the summer in rural Louisiana, surrounded by an extended, loving family. She's been listening carefully ever since.
Now Abby is raising her own family thousands of miles away. And even though Hawaii might seem like paradise to some, it's a long way away from those idyllic days she
...Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
19) Thunder cake
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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