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Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in a car accident, a rebellious twelve-year-old girl is sent to live on her grandfather's ranch, and as she works with the animals and meets new people she and her family discover ways to heal and move on with their lives.
3) Persuasion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This is a story about a sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner and his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. Before the show begins, Danny Tanner's wife is killed by a drunk driver. So he needs help raising his three little girls. He asks his rock musician brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis and his comedian best friend, Joey Gladstone to move in with them. As the show goes on, Jesse gets married...
5) Swamplandia!
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Nicole Reed's family moves to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, her life is completely turned upside down. When she and her sister, Izzy, are left alone in this remote landscape to fend for themselves, her skills are put to the ultimate test. --Publisher
8) Ella's wish
Author
Series
Little Valley volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Still devastated by the loss of Aden, Ella Yoder faces the intentions of two would-be suitors while she cares for the three motherless Stutzman girls and searches for the answer in her heart and in God.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season. Watch as the girls graduate to the next grade level, Stephanie has to wear glasses for the first time, Steve Urkel drops by, and Jesse and Rebecca get married after some hilarious mishaps.
10) Hide and seek
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After his wife is found dead, David decides to take his child, Emily, to live in a house upstate. She finds a weird imaginary friend named Charlie. He likes to play games, and is jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
D.J. nears high school graduation, Michelle and Jesse wait for the cops instead of Santa on Christmas Eve, Stephanie starts her own band, Joey spends a freaky Super Bowl Sunday, Danny takes Valentine's Day advice from the King of Romance (Jesse, of course), and D.J. runs off to a wedding chapel, but not for the reason her family thinks.
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Angel's View Ranch has always been special to Annelise McCade. Once upon a time, it was her family's land, until her grandfather sold it to billionaire Wallace Sheridan. Now employed as the live-in caretaker, Annie is just trying to make it through the holidays with both her sanity and her niece's and nephew's faith in the magic of Christmas intact. The six-year-old twins recently lost their mother, so Annie tells herself it wouldn't be a problem...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
15) Night fever
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Appealing to district attorney Rourke Kilpatrick when her troubled brother is arrested on drug charges, naive Rebecca Cullen finds herself falling for this man who might be using her and her family to get to a notorious drug dealer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fashionable Easterner Alison Stripling is shocked to receive a letter from her deceased sister's husband in Hope, Kansas, pleading for help with his six children. The letter gives Alison a chance to escape her troubles in Boston, and the name of the town seems like a sign from God. But when she arrives at a rustic cabin on the prairie, she's in for a bigger shock: Rafe Munroe didn't write the letter at all! Realizing the children are determined to...
Author
Language
English
Description
A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—“a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined sister,
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of...
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