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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Author
Series
Jim Qwilleran feline whodunnit volume 28
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places--on the head of a young visitor whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, leaving Qwill with his work cut out for him.
Author
Series
Jim Qwilleran feline whodunnit volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
Author
Series
Jim Qwilleran feline whodunnit volume 25
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reluctant millionaire and small town reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, confront a new mystery.
10) We must be brave
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
12) Cranford
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of life in a quiet English country town in the mid-nineteenth century follows the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters living in reduced circumstances.
13) Atonement
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
14) Auction!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
People from all over the county attend an auction where people bid on everything from clothes and paintings to a stuffed groundhog and a potbellied stove.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After he is caught viewing inappropriate websites on the Internet, a fatherless, thirteen-year-old Chicago boy is sent to rural Indiana to spend school break with his eccentric great-uncle.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Enamored with her new surroundings in Canterlow, a small country town brimming with nature and the promise of newfound love, Lorna Kent soon discovers that violence and betrayal lurk beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Stunning her free-spirited mother by settling down in a quiet New England community, Sabine, a possessor of psychic abilities, helps unravel a local mystery with the help of Dan Smith, who has returned to his childhood home to claim the family business.
19) City chicken
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Egged on by the cat next door, a chicken from the city visits the country to see what she's been missing, and finds that it's not "all it's cracked up to be."
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