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Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. This is a fast-paced, uplifting story that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences over the course of a year of five-year-old Charlotte Tucker, who would grow up to become the grandmother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, living with her family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the War of 1812.
Author
Series
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 10
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. But D.D....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a "secure location." When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image....
Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian who served as translator to the Pilgrims of Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts and aided them in establishing a successful colony in the early 1600s.
Author
Series
Imagination Station volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth use the Imagination Station to go to Plymouth Colony in 1621 hoping to find Hugh and return him to his own time, they meet William Bradford, Myles Standish, and Squanto.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Meredith Martin Delinn, under siege after it is learned her husband cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars, persuades her estranged friend Connie Flute to take her along to Connie's house in Nantucket, where the two women, both nursing their broken hearts, learn lessons of love, healing, and redemption.
70) Set me free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.
Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows...
Author
Publisher
Amistad/Katherine Tegen
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In July 1863, a significant battle in the Civil War was fought. Sergeant William H. Carney, an officer of the newly formed Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment - comprised entirely of African Americans - led his soldiers over the ramparts of Fort Wagner, where Union soldiers charged the Confederates. As the soldiers fought, they gained strength from the stars and stripes of the American flag, Old Glory. It was Carney's vow to never let Old Glory touch...
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the Massachusetts Indian Squanto was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the Pilgrims.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2006?], c2002
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian
75) Choose me
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant--so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, Frankie knows in her gut there's more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn's suicide--or a motive for murder. To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.
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