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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance...
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"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
7) Iowa
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
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144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of Iowa.
8) Iowa
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Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : col. ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana. But as the United States enters the Great War, anti-German sentiment sweeps the country, and Amanans now face persecution from former friends. Jutta Schmitt is shocked when government agents demand that she return to Amana and report on un-American activities. Then Ilsa's childhood sweetheart is accused of something far worse than Jutta could imagine.
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For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right. Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her. But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't...
12) Little mercies
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Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
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"Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. 1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied oncer beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind...
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Everyone has a secret they’ll do anything to hide…
Twenty-five years ago, the body of sixteen-year-old Eve Knox was found in the caves near her home in small-town Grotto, Iowa—discovered by her best friend, Maggie, and her sister, Nola. There were a handful of suspects, including her boyfriend, Nick, but without sufficient evidence the case ultimately went cold.
For decades Maggie was haunted by Eve’s death and that horrible night. Now a...
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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"When Librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books."--Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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8 sound discs (approx 9 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Having overdue library books is often one of the least offenses that people partake in throughout their lives. Sam Peebles, however, realizes that in Junction City, Iowa, overdue library books can be a cause for threats, harassment, and even torture.
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Pretty little liars volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars, because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: she's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew too much. If these girls don't start listening to me, Hanna's going to look like the lucky one.
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