Aimee Lilly
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters - and they're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home.
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Boxcar children volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.
3) The missing
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Seasons of grace (Beverly Lewis) volume 2
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"Englisher" Heather Lang has come to Amish country to relive fond memories of her mother and to contemplate a grave medical prognosis of her own. While in Bird-in-Hand, Heather meets Grace Byler and the two young women strike up a fast friendship, amazed by how well they click. Following the only clue they have, Grace and Heather travel together in hopes of finding Grace's mother and bringing her home. Will they find what they're looking for ... or...
4) The secret
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Seasons of grace (Beverly Lewis) volume 1
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In this portrait of an Amish family's struggle to overcome the effects of a baffling secret, soon-to- be-engaged Grace Byler is perplexed by her mom's nocturnal weeping and wandering--and her dad's refusal to discuss what's wrong. But when her mom runs off, Grace puts her own life on hold to pick up the pieces her mother left behind.
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Boxcar children volume 30
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At the same time that the Alden children's efforts to raise money for new hospital are being sabotaged by nasty tricks, they find their attempts to befriend the new girl, Beth, frustrated by her strange behavior.
6) The betrayal
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Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
7) The telling
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Seasons of grace (Beverly Lewis) volume 3
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As an Amish young lady leaves Bird-in-Hand in a fancy car to search for her mother in Ohio, she wonders if her mom really wants to be found. She also hopes her Englisher friend--determined to forgo traditional medicine--can find the healing she seeks. But she has no idea her mom is following clues of her own.
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A daring debutante solves the crimes of upper-crust Manhattan in this groundbreaking story collection from the queen of American mystery Violet Strange has a secret. A vivacious socialite, she is one of the most sought-after women in New York-as a private investigator. Between well-heeled excursions to the opera and fabulous dinner parties, Violet uses her lively charms to investigate the dark side of Gilded Age society. From the daughter of an important...
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Boxcar children volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
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Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Boxcar children volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.
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Boxcar children volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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In the borderlands of 1770 West Virginia there is no place for finer feelings. Charged with keeping the peace with local tribes, a hero of the French and Indian War is determined to stay free of romantic entanglement--until he meets a frontier maiden who just might be able to change his mind.
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Lonestar (Colleen Coble) volume 1
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Allie Siders retreats to the peaceful Bluebird Ranch in the Texas hill country with her five-year-old daughter Betsy, both to hide from a dangerous stalker and in the hopes that Betsy will heal enough to speak again. There she meets ranch foreman Rick Bailey and learns to love again.
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Ariana loves her life as a schoolteacher in a little frontier town. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home, her life changes in an instant when a band of rough outlaws abduct her and take her far away from all she has ever known. Trapped in a small shack, Ariana prays and waits, her emotions swinging between terror and boredom as days stretch into weeks. Still, the outlaws refuse to tell her why they've taken her or...
17) The lacemaker
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Lady Elizabeth "Liberty" Lawson, daughter of the British lieutenant governor of the Virginia Colony, seems to have her life in order. But colonial Williamsburg is a powder keg on the verge of exploding, and her fiance's cousin Noble Rynallt carries the flame of revolution in his heart. Will she stay true to her English roots, or side with Noble and the radical revolutionaries?
18) A moonbow night
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On the 1770s Kentucky frontier, secrets from Temperance Tucker's past in Virginia complicate matters when she acts as a guide for a handsome surveyor from Virginia named Sion Morgan.
19) A bound heart
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"Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land?" --
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The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...
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