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1) Past tense
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 23
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? and takes the detour. At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two...
Author
Series
Teardrop volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series comes Waterfall, a novel about love, betrayal, and epic consequences-a world-altering tale told by a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis. Eurekas tears have flooded the earth, and now Atlantis is rising. Eureka is the only one who can stop Atlantiss evil king, Atlas, but first she must learn how to fight. With her friend Brooks now lost to her forever,...
3) Graceling
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
4) The last
Author
Series
Endling volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So Byx sets out to find safe haven, and to see if the legends of other hidden dairnes are true. Along the way, she meets new allies--animals and humans alike--who...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save...
7) Train
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 01
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog, Tim, to the emergency vet on Christmas Eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women's lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda's. A year after the breakup, Brenda has put her life back together. She's trained for a marathon, is writing a children's novel, and she's found purpose...
10) Stuart Little
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family's garden.
11) Cured
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury
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.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly's evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship.
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, it's with one purpose in mind. Julianna knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Healing from the loss that has long plagued him grows harder for Seattle advertising executive Alan Christoffersen as a new crisis calls on friends old and new to help see him through yet another troubled time as he comes to the end of his journey and prepares to make a crucial choice.
16) Royal icing
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Juliette invites the cupcake club girls to London to cater her boyfriend's West End acting debut, and while there Lady and Lord Wakefield ask them to build a cupcake London Bridge for their daughter's birthday.
17) Torn
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
18) The walk
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
What would you do if you lost everything -- your job, your home, and the love of your life -- all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts. A bottle of pills in his hand and nothing left to live for, he plans to end his misery. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Al leaves behind all that he's known and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
20) Hog music
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois.
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