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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
4) Blind beauty
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Tessa's passion for riding and her love for an ugly horse named Buffoon help her endure an unhappy life in the English countryside with a hateful stepfather.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[c1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
185p
Language
English
Description
With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter
6) Everlasting
Author
Publisher
Harperluxe
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st HarperLuxe ed. ; Large print ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Once, Abrielle was a privileged daughter coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, and her beauty. But when her stepfather is denied his rightful title and the wealth that accompanies it, Abrielle finds herself suddenly disgraced. Only one man would still have her: the oafish and grotesque Desmond de Marlé. To rescue her once-proud family's honor, Abrielle must sacrifice her virtue to this scoundrel she fears and detests . . . even as she yearns...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When Eden Radley's estranged mother kills herself and her young disabled son, a guilt-ridden Eden heads to Cleveland for the funeral and the more she discovers, the more she thinks her mother's death was not a suicide.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
10) Shadows
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While in the midst of suspecting that her mother's Old World boyfriend, Val, is practicing illegal magic, Maggie meets and falls in love with Casimir, who believes he knows the truth about Val's magic and who Maggie must rely on in the face of world-changing events.
11) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
Author
Publisher
HarperThrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
272 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving with their widowed mother to the home in the woods near Concord, Wisconsin, nine-year-old Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her brothers and sisters try to adjust to their new neighborhood and new stepfather.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Fern helps her poor family by hunting and foraging for food in the forest near her home and worries that fracking will damage their livelihood, but she cannot get her family and neighbors to understand the threat.
15) Don't know tough
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt's Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood "It Girl" who's cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong" --
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party...