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The Delaney family loved one another dearly--it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other...If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect is your father? This is dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaney's are fixtures in the community. The parents Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They are killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry are palpable....
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 21 cm
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"Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the naughtiest old ladies ever, begins to do what it does best-meddle....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned...
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Will Wilder volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--
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Accelerated Reader
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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Pub. Date
[2023]
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290 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Each of the Baxter children experiences trouble at school, and when Principal Bond announces a new Character Awards initiative competition breaks out between the siblings until they remember what being a Baxter really means.
10) Best family ever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
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"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
11) Never grow up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
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While Kari Baxter eagerly awaits a meteor shower and frets over what she wants to be when she grows up, Ashley gets an idea for how to keep her siblings from growing up too fast.
12) Farmer boy
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
14) Finding home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
420L
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Summer is over and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter Familys new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone, that is, except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she cant help but wonder if unlikely friends can be the best friends of all? And could time...
15) Little men
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Now married, Jo Bhaer (nee March) couldn't be happier. Jo, along with her husband Professor Friedrich Bhaer, operates the Plumfield Estate School. Plumfield is a haven for poor orphans which is attended by 12 adopted boy as well as Jo's own two sons. Although Plumfield is a place of trust and warmth, the boys occasionally struggle to maintain good manners.
16) Dark of night
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Annie Pederson novels volume 2
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"The law is about justice--not grace. But perhaps ranger Annie Pederson can find a way to have both. As if the last few months haven't been hard enough--complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon--Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie's eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what's going...
17) The long winter
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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After Indians predicted a severe winter, Laura's family moved into town where blizzards soon isolated them and supplies ran out.
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