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1) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
Author
Series
Mither Mages volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
384 p.
Language
English
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas and his companion Annamaria, temporarily taking refuge at Roseland, the opulent estate of a reclusive billionaire, discover that the estate and its masters are hiding deep and dreadful secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
June O'Donnell and Saul Angert, the daughter and son of two long-feuding families, fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about a curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a far fetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
8) Gallant
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up motherless and under the thumb of a cruel stepfather in hardscrabble 1920s Kentucky, Bertie Fisher and her older sister, Mabel, are torn apart by a painful misunderstanding that reverberates through the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ronan Lynch has secrets and is one of the raven boys, a group of friends, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury comes an unforgettable story of love struggling against all odds to snatch hope from the jaws of despair. Annie Warren's concern for her adult son Josh has intensified ever since a drunk driver careened into him. Disabled and in constant pain, Josh has put his life on hold while awaiting an insurance settlement that seems never to come. Yet as Annie sifts through the rubble of Josh's life, she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
13) The Raven King
Author
Series
The Raven Cycle volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their seven-year-old daughter goes missing, Antonia evaluates her decision to stay in a loveless marriage that caused her child to withdraw into silence, while Martin confronts an uncomfortable aspect of his own personality.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1925, at her family's suburban Philadelphia estate, 13-year-old Emily Stewart discovers she can make a loud rapping noise with her ankle. With her sly twin brother, Michael, Emily entertains gullible schoolmates with "knockings" that spirits purportedly make to answer questions about the afterlife. When adults who have suffered the loss of loved ones start consulting her as a spirit medium, her efforts to give them consolation begin to seem increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother--how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible. As things unravel at home for Ezra, Bea will confront secrets about their past...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit. Merit Voss...
20) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.