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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
520 "Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her parents decide to move their family to the English countryside and raise chickens, Becca tries to make friends with her new neighbors by hiding her diabetes and throwing a twelfth birthday party for herself.
10) The stolen one
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
11) Warning at one
Author
Series
Lois Meade mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Lois Meade has a personal stake in her latest investigation when her son Douglas becomes a prime suspect in the killings of a cantankerous elderly neighbor, Clem Fitch, and his noisy pet rooster.
14) The summer house
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Matt appreciated the childhood memories his mother had so lovingly kept in a small wooden box. But now, as he looks at the photos of himself as a child, something about them puzzled him. Especially why his sister Imogen wasn't in any of the photos. It wasn't until after Imogen bought the summer house that he learned the tragic secret that affected his entire life
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Leaving London to move into a beautiful house in the country, Miranda and David find their marriage succumbing to long-standing conflicts until a mysterious Frenchman arrives to tend their garden, bringing with him a healing energy that is drawn from nature.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the Lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss Potter is on the case!
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2008], p1987
Language
English
Description
Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglected churchyard doesn't meet with universal approval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someone has returned to the village after an absence of fifty years.
Author
Series
Lois Meade mystery volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lois Meade has worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. A series of robberies have begun to plague Long Farnden, and Lois's own daughter, Josie, is shaken when a thief makes off with a hundred pounds from the till in her grocery shop. But before her policeman fiancé can crack the case, someone cracks Lois's husband on the head when he interrupts a burglary in progress....
Author
Publisher
NAL Trade
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Cecily Chadwick is idling away the long, hot summer of 1911 when a mysterious countess moves into the large, deserted country house on the edge of her sleepy English village. Rumors abound about the countess's many husbands and lovers, her opulent wealth, and the tragedies that have marked her life. As Cecily gets to know her, she becomes fascinated by the remarkable woman--riveted by her tales of life on the Continent, and of the famous people she...
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