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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Author
Series
Under northern skies volume 4
Language
English
Description
Minnesota, 1911. Nilda Carlson is torn between life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on the farm. Her employer, Mrs. Schoenleber, gives her more and more responsibility and experience. Still new to America herself, Nilda focuses on the area's immigrant community, but she'll have to fight to get her ideas accepted by the locals and donors alike. One of her greatest joys is her weekly piano lesson with Fritz Larsson....
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the long-running feud between the two families, beginning with a Civil War era murder, through thefts, home burnings, and multiple killings up to the 1890s and the impact the feud had on popular imagination and other feuds in the region.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
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Language
English
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Description
"This sweeping story, set during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century, begins in 1973, when the Ericksons of Grenada, Iowa, gather for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita. Even as they celebrate, the fault lines in the family emerge. The bride just wants to raise a family in her hometown while her brother, Ryan, plans his escape. He is joined by their cousin Chip, an unpredictable, war-damaged loner who will show Ryan both...
10) The patriots
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping multigenerational debut novel about idealism, betrayal, and family secrets that takes us from Brooklyn in the 1930s to Soviet Russia to post-Cold War America.
12) Holidays on Ice
Author
Language
English
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Description
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Kalia wants ice cream, she has to make do with ice cubes from the freezer. When she wants a new dress for the first day of school, her mother gives her a few coins to spend on candy at the corner store. And when she wants meat for dinner, she must settle for a piece of bone that flavors the family's soup. Finally, Kalia becomes tired of longing for what she cannot have. When she asks for braces to straighten her crooked teeth, which her...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Sonia Kennebeck follows an average American family that become entangled in a bizarre web of espionage and corporate secrets when the U.S. government targets the family's hacker son.
Author
Publisher
Northfield Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
You have hopes and dreams for your family. Yet, it's easy to become overwhelmed and discouraged. Strong, healthy familiesare possible and do exist. But they do not happen without help and support. To establish vibrant, well-founded patterns in your own family, you will need to learn how to recognize and apply the qualities that healthy families share.Dr. Gary Chapman showsus how to have a loving, stable family. What are the five timeless characteristics...
16) The winds of war
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart"--
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
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