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81) The Prophet
Author
Language
English
Description
Two brothers in a small Midwestern town: one the high school's beloved football coach on the verge of a state championship, one scraping by as a bail bondsman. Their sister was abducted and murdered when they were teenagers, and they've been divided since that day. Now a new killing with ties to each of them has forced a painful and adversarial reunion
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fraternal twin brothers Peter and Michael McDowell have spent a lifetime competing for success and affection before that competition turned into an all-out war and made the brothers mortal enemies. While both Peter and Michael have grown into successful adults, they never managed to leave behind the animosity that took root in their childhood. With the collapse of his career and his marriage, Peter sees no other option than to move into the lake...
83) Ordinary people
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Conrad returns home from a mental institution, where he was sent after his brother's accidental death and his own ensuing suicide attempt. To begin a new life, he must learn to accept himself and those close to him
84) Fire engine man
Author
Series
Digger man volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy imagines the work he will do and the safety gear he will wear when he becomes a fireman some day, as his younger brother first watches then joins him on the job
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Tohrment, a Black Dagger Brother, is given a second chance at love and life after losing everything
89) Twelve dead men
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An outlaw comes to town looking to kill the twelve men who convicted his brother of murder
90) The Thief Lord
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany
91) Ducktails
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 6
Publisher
Bethany Backyard
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Quackery and his brother Zackery get bigger, they begin to question whether their parents always know what is best
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Two books in one (also contains Beyond Tuesday Morning). The World Trade Center collapses and the lives of firefighter, Jake Bryan, and his wife, Jamie, will never be the same. In Beyond Tuesday Morning can Jamie move beyond Tues. morning and toward a new life?
94) The swap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex
Author
Language
English
Description
Upstate New York. George Clare comes home from his position as an art teacher at a private college to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone. George is the immediate suspect, and a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving him a heartless murderer. Three teenage brothers who previously lived in the house become entangled in the investigation. But behind one crime there are others, and more than twenty years will pass...
97) The merbaby
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he and his brother Josh find a mer-baby caught in their fishing net, Tarron, rejecting his brother's plan to sell the baby and make a profit, discovers that there are greater treasures than gold
98) Trouble-maker
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
100) The Sisters Brothers
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers
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