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761) 13 and 3/4
Author
Series
Friendship list volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Ari and Kaylan aren't sure how they're going to survive their first summer apart. No pool. No sleepovers. No emergency late night chats on the porch. So as Ari returns to Camp Silver and Kaylan heads off to comedy camp, they come up with a new list of 13 and 3/4 ways to keep their friendship strong as they tackle everything from bias to batik and moping to matchmaking"--
762) Hitch
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Drix and Elle come from different backgrounds and different worlds. They try to find what connects them and break past the odds to, maybe, be together while finding their own independence from their pasts and their families' expectations.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Stacey, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, learns to cope with her diabetes and her overprotective parents.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seeking God's forgiveness for a past sin, eighteen-year-old Kate finds summer employment at a church camp, where she is tempted to have a fling with co-counselor Matt.
768) Calico bush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
769) How lucky: a novel
Author
Formats
Description
Unable to speak or move without a wheelchair, Daniel, spending hours observing his neighborhood from his front porch, believes he has witnessed the kidnapping of a young college student and vows to solve this mystery.
771) Girls in trucks
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication.
772) The sixth form
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ethan Whitley attends an elite New England prep school, he is invited into a world of privilege and desire where he discovers the price of betrayal when he is drawn into an investigation of the death of another student.
773) Pavilion of women
Author
Description
The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman's subversive new chapter in life. At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China's oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she's free to read...
774) Indecent
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Accepting a teaching position at the Vandenberg School for Boys, Imogene Abney, lost in the haze of first love and unable to recognize the danger she is in, crosses the line when she has an obsessive, illicit affair with a student.
775) Size 0
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"It's been one student's dream to work in fashion, but her internship with a trendy LA clothing company leaves her with reservations about how models are treated and how fashion affects body images"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, and Korea. While in Paris Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Separated for long periods of time, their final...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In this deeply hopeful and viscerally detailed novel, award-winning Haitian author Louis-Philippe Dalembert (The Other Side of the Sea) has provided a Tolstoyan narrative of the contemporary immigrants' exodus from war, famine, poverty, criminality and injustice to a better life across the Mediterranean Sea. Following in intimate detail the lives of three women from disparate religions and cultures, and nations--Nigeria, Eritrea, and Syria--Dalembert...
779) An Ocean in Iowa
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A "funny and supremely moving" novel about a seven-year-old navigating a world of turmoil by the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Harper's Bazaar).
Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be "his year." But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family-leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year falls apart, Scotty begins to act out during school...
780) Katerina
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey's highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles. A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the explosive new novel by America's most controversial writer,...