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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Harper Shaw's life falls apart, she knows it's time for a change. She removes everything that doesn't spark joy--from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists--and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn't feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery. With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels...
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2004], c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
75 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mandy is thrilled when she gets her own horse for her thirteenth birthday, but her best friend, Laura, reacts strangely to the news, and their friendship is tested when tragedy strikes.
27) Dandelion summer
Author
Series
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xi, 381 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old living on the low-rent side of Blue Sky Hill takes a job in an upscale home looking after an elderly widower suffering from heart trouble and together the two form a life-changing friendship.
28) Summer people
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A summer of healing turns turbulent when Beth, grieving widow, and her teenage twins experience passion and first love, but a dangerous secret from her past threatens to destroy the family.
29) Worth dying for
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
439 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
30) Traffick
Author
Series
Tricks volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with, and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. It's against such odds that Nameless must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way.
32) Promise
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Barely surviving an F5 tornado that rips through her 1936 Mississippi hometown, an African-American laundress and great-grandmother searches for her family among the catastrophe's survivors while bonding with the traumatized teen daughter of a despised white judge.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Author of more than a dozen novels, including Felicia's Journey, Irish author William Trevor is hailed as one of the most extraordinary writers of today. He has a special talent for examining the innermost regions of his characters' hearts. The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child's attempt to remain in her beloved home. Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings...
34) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years after her three-year-old son disappeared into the wilderness of Wyoming, Daisy Tucker returns to the scene of the crime to confront the demons of her past and to find her runaway daughter, the twin sister of her missing son.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa, a budding photographer, has been living in suspended animation since her best friend was kidnapped at the age of fourteen, and when she suddenly returns, both of them, along with the people they love, must deal with the emotional aftermath of the terrible ordeal.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped during a carjacking, two-year-old Etta is discovered and protected by an abandoned homeless teen who forges an unlikely friendship with the child's financially strapped single mother.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
39) Forgiveness road
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Mississippi, the lives of three generations of women are thrown into upheaval and dark family secrets exposed when sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering deliberately shoots and kills her father.
40) 10th anniversary
Author
Series
The women's murder club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...