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501) What she left behind
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this stunning new novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree merges the past and present into a haunting story about the nature of love and loyalty--and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most.
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ruby Harris, longtime owner of the historic B&B, The Christmas House, is tying the knot--on Christmas Eve! Olivia Harris is thrilled for her grandmother and can't wait to help plan the event. Newly divorced, with an adorable baby girl, Olivia has spent the last year starting a new life in Silver Springs. First on her list is to renovate the old warehouse she's purchased and launch her dance studio. Second is to find a date for the wedding. And third...
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning home when Gran, the treasured matriarch, falls in a coma after a car accident caused by her mother, Maggie finds Sullivan's Island is holding even more secrets as she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind and finding love.
In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer before he leaves for college, eighteen-year-old Isaac Martin makes big plans with his best friend Diego that only the reappearance of an old crush can derail.
School's out, senior year is over, and Isaac Martin is ready to kick off summer. His last before heading off to college in the fall where he won't have his best friend, Diego. Where--despite his social anxiety--he'll be left to make friends on his own. Knowing his time with Diego...
505) The haunted
Author
Series
Haunted (Vega) volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house. Clean slate. That's what Hendricks Becker-O'Malley's parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things...
506) Like Vanessa
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.
508) Jo & Laurie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the publication of her surprise bestseller LITTLE WOMEN, Jo March struggles to write its sequel, while also deciding her true feelings for her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence"--
509) Falling for Rachel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zack Muldoon finds himself falling for Rachel Stanislaski, the Manhattan lawyer assigned to keep his delinquent younger brother out of trouble.
510) A Shiloh Christmas
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Introducing the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe, carrying secrets on their shoulders . . . An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Marion Hoxton found in the Great War something other than destruction. She found a chance to belong. As a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service--the Wrens--Marion gained sisters. She found purpose in her work as a motorcycle dispatch rider, assigned to train and deliver...
512) When snow falls
Author
Series
Whiskey Creek novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own, and for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by early memories of a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother. Cheyenne has repeatedly asked, but no one is talking. She's set on finding answers, but without so much as a birth certificate, it won't be easy.
513) Cemetery boys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
515) Anna K: a love story
Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers. Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo--her...
517) The piper's pursuit
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1424 Hamlin, Katerina reluctantly allies with the handsome but brash Steffan to protect herself and her city from formidable dangers--missing children, hordes of rats, a marauding beast, and her devious stepfather, the town's mayor.
518) The winter princess
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 20
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pearl Swamp is not happy when her selection as the next winter princess is overshadowed by her family's decision to adopt a baby boy." --
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white--a perfect family read. Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle--if anything, a bit boring. But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle basement, leading a quirky group of artists in producing party...
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