Karen Kingsbury
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Before You Take a Stand … You Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal-on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the "in" crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems...
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Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but the high turnout at every meeting encourages him. A year later, violence and...
4) Ever after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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"In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson falls deeply in love with a young Army reservist who is about to serve in Iraq. At the same time, Emily's parents seem on the verge of losing all they had gained. Will heartbreaking tragedy be the turning point for all of them?" -- from Zondervan publisher's web site.
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Angels walking volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
6) Leaving
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Bailey Flanagan leaves Bloomington after winning an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. In order to be closer to his mother in jail, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. But new friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey.
7) Loving
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
8) Longing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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"After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town football team has brought him and his players national attention. In the midst...
9) Learning
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. Bailey grows closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York, while Cody coaches a small high school football team. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one another. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Both Bailey and Cody learn significant life lessons in this poignant...
10) Between Sundays
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Three people--self-centered star running back Troy Anderson; pro football player Ben Parker, who has strayed from God; and social worker Kimberly Singleton, struggling to adopt a little boy--are brought together during a season of hope, self-discovery, and faith.
11) Oceans apart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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He failed his family only once, long ago, but they never knew about it. Now pilot Connor Evan's life and marriage are going great, until Connor finds himself face-to-face with his past in the form of a seven year old boy.
12) Shades of blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all ... a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancee, and a fairy tale life ahead of him; when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him and he must find his old love and make amends.
13) Even now
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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With her hallmark tenderness and power, the #1 bestselling author of "Beyond Tuesday Morning" weaves a tapestry of lives, losses, love, faith, and the miracle of resurrection. A young woman decides to search for her birth mother--a woman separated by lies and long years from a man she has never forgotten.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul's, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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I'm a firefighter, God, so I know I've been in some tough places before. But this . . . this not knowing the people I love . . . this is the hardest thing I can imagine. The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rushing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from...
16) Hannah's hope
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Series
Red gloves series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"A fifteen-year-old girl longs for the father she never knew"--Provided by the publisher.
17) Fame
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood and is caught up in the dangerous world of fame and paparazzi. Katy Hart is delighted when she learns she can play opposite of Dayne in a Hollywood film. The choices these two make will change their lives forever.
18) Sunrise
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Baxter family series. Sunrise volume 1
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In preparation for their wedding day, Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are determined to keep the ceremony a secret from the paparazzi. Their relationship grows closer and stronger as they plan together, but before the wedding, Katy and Dayne face what may be their greatest challenge.
19) 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"--