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161) Mockingbird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Provides constructive ideas for teens dealing with the divorce of their parents as well as quotes from teens who have gone through many divorce situations. Coping with a parent's divorce is not easy at any age, but for many teens it is a reality they must face. Each year more and more teens have parents that are divorced or in the process of getting a divorce. Dealing with the emotional turmoil of divorce is never easy. But it does not have to be...
163) The glass castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
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...
165) Not a happy family
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 349 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In this family, everyone is keeping secrets. Even the dead. In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Merton. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered the night after an Easter dinner with their three...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
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Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"In creating my [the author's] own story of Alfred and Dorothea Gibson, I have taken a novelist's liberties as I explored an imaginative path through their relationship. . . . Inspired by "threads of Dickens's own preoccupations with things strange, romantic, and melodramatic rather than realistic ... at times, characters from his novels make a transmuted appearance as characters in his life. ... Above all, in Dorothea Gibson I have tried to give...
170) Spy runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake's mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake's dad, who went missing in...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (904 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In season 13 of BLUE BLOODS, the job takes a dangerous turn for the Reagans when Eddie and Jamie deal with a domestic violence case associated with an investigation led by Danny and Baez. Also, Frank and his friend, Archbishop Kearns, go on a mission to avail themselves of an unfiltered look at the city; and Erin is presented with a surprising offer by her ex-husband, Jack Boyle, regarding her run for District Attorney.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 340 pages ; 19 cm
Description
This volume is the second installment of a trilogy of books which depict the life of the author, who as a young boy who was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother. The book discusses Pelzer's struggling with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. It also talks about the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him as well as his inability to...
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Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lou Ann Hunter's mother, Patricia, has always had a passionate nature, which explains why she's been married and divorced five times and spooned enough male patients to be ousted from three elderly care facilities. She also has Alzheimer's, which is why she wants to spend her remaining months or years surrounded by memories at her family's decrepit old plantation in Louisiana with her only daughter. As Lou Ann adjusts to this new and inevitably temporary...
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"The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The sibling of the child featured in "A Child Called It" describes how after the removal of Dave from the family, their alcoholic mother turned her abusive attentions to the author and prevented his escape by hiding the severity of his injuries.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (923 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Jamie and Eddie announced their engagement in last season's finale, season nine finds the Regean family questioning the future of their partnership. Frank considers whether it's appropriate for the couple to continue working together, while Erin is on tap for a promotion after her boss's untimely death and Danny prepares to send his eldest son, Jack, to college.
177) Trowbridge Road
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
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"America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and first...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 858 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Season Twelve of Blue Bloods returns, Danny seeks the help of Maggie Gibson, a psychic medium, during his investigation into the tragic murder of a two-year-old boy, while Frank finds himself at odds with the mayor over how best to protect the city after a recent uptick in city crime. Also, Jamie and Eddie defend Officer Witten when she receives departmental and public backlash for pulling her gun on an unarmed man during an arrest at a local...
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