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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Little Owl loves many things. But he does not love his new scarf. It is itchy. It is too long. It is too orange. That's why Little Owl is doing his very best to lose his new scarf. Too bad Mommy is so good at finding it. But one day, even Mommy can't find the orange scarf. And that's when--together--Mommy and Little Owl come up with the best way to keep Little Owl warm. (And the orange scarf finds a new home, too.)"--Dust jacket
42) Mica highways
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A stockbroker abandons the rat race in Chicago to return to the South and devote himself to the history of his family. In this way Charlie Tidewater discovers an interesting grandfather and a murder. By the author of Tobacco Sticks
Author
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
Author
Series
Sylvan novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a neighborhood summer block party ends in violence and the disappearance of two women, private investigator Laney Bird discovers that her close circle of friends have become suspects and her complicated and enigmatic teenage son is hiding something
50) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2003, ©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An American wife in Italy, ignored by her Italian husband and caring for a sick child, risks bittersweet romance with the new man in town
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When challenges arise during a hiking and camping trip a mother could do a lot of things herself, such as carrying her son's heavy pack or putting up the tent by herself, but always finds a way to lovingly teach self-reliance
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Series
Language
English
Description
After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has...When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she's in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband's best friend and is the person she blames...
Author
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For every parent whose child won't settle into bed without a dozen excuses, here is an adorable bedtime story from a beloved, award-winning author. With Richmond's signature heartfelt illustrations and whimsical text, "I'm Not Tired Yet!" helps every parent ease their child off to dreamland
56) The Nix
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
In Norwegian folklore, a nix is a spirit, sometimes appearing as a white horse, that steals children away. Its 2011, and college professor Samuel Andresen-Anderson has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. She abandoned the family when he was a boy; now she's re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime...
57) Divided we fall
Author
Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidentally fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Megan is ecstatic when her missing son Daniel walks into a police station six years after his disappearance. But as she struggles to reconnect with her son, Megan suspects there may be more to the story of his disappearance than she knows
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rupert cannot resist applying to an advertisement to be a witch's apprentice, but quickly finds himself over his head with the young witch-in-training who desperately needs his help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death
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