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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
2) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Navigating fashionable society, wealthy heiress Rose and her closest friend Phebe find their new paths derailed when their loved ones are put in harm's way by illness and reckless decisions, forcing them both to rise to the occasion and show everyone what they're made of.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death.
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, and Granite Point is consumed by a long-buried fear, healer Patience Sparrow must find a way to turn the tide and return life to this seaside New England hamlet with the help of the town's women.
Author
Series
Publisher
Apollo Grannus Books LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful New England town. An old New England family. An albatross of a house. When you've lived your entire life in the shadow of failed expectations, you don't take risks and you don't expect payoffs. Coming home to Greenleigh is a timeless second-chance-at-love work of women's fiction set in an authentic New England. It's a romance, a coming-of-age novel, and an ode to family and small towns everywhere."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
In 1861, war is raging in the South, but in Concord, Massachusetts, Margaret March has her own battles to fight. With her husband serving as an army chaplain, the comfort and security of Margaret's four daughters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, now rest on her shoulders alone. Money is tight and every month, her husband sends less and less of his salary with no explanation. Worst of all, Margaret harbors the secret that these financial hardships are largely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As each of the four March sisters turns ten, she is invited by Aunt March at Christmastime to discuss who will receive an heirloom, an old cameo brooch, and thus each girl contemplates her role in the family.
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Josh tells himself he's the luckiest guy in the world. Living on his sailboat and taking tourists on occasional chartered trips, he's not tied down to routines and responsibilities. He even names his sailboat Solitude, because that's what he enjoys much of the time. Danae works at a boat company, and she just got promoted--sort of. To keep her dream job, she must get her opinionated coworkers to all agree on a marketing plan. Her boss directs her...
13) A gift for Amy
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Although Amy encourages the attentions of Robert, a well-to-do classmate, she must face her true feelings when he surprises her with an expensive gift.
15) A gift for Meg
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Meg receives a bolt of exquisite lace to be used on her wedding day, she struggles to safeguard it from her covetous sister Jo.
16) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys--including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat--are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it most."--Page [4] of cover.
17) The summer wives
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season--an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast...In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Trade
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Love isn't always a piece of cake... Laurie Davis has always followed her passion. After escaping family drama to start a new life in New York City, she's up for whatever challenges life brings. So when an opportunity arises for her to use her travel industry expertise and serve as an assistant and tour guide for her idol, Pamela Lambert-Leigh, star of television's Tea-Time with Pamela, she jumps at the chance. But Laurie's exciting adventure ends...
19) Barefoot beach
Author
Series
Harmony Harbor volume 8
Publisher
Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Can a summer of love make up for a lifetime of secrets? Wedding fever has taken over Harmony Harbor this summer, and the local matchmakers have set their sights on Theia Lawson, a former navy pilot who's in town for a stay at Greystone Manor. And while Theia's got her reasons to put this small town behind her as fast as she can, there's a certain tall, dark, and irresistible man that she can't seem to get off her mind. Firefighter Marco DiRossi wants...
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