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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2012.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. This beloved novel about an 11-year-old...
Author
Series
Blackberry Farm volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Becket and her twin brother, Nicholas, adopt new pets from the local shelter, Becket's dream dog turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch, and Nicholas's cat is more outgoing and attention-seeking than he was expecting"--
Author
Series
Magic kitten volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Spending a boring summer in the country with her aunt turns exciting for ten-year-old Lisa when she discovers a magic kitten.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Language
English
Description
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1935 Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment's flirtation between her sister and the son of a servant. A crime occurs soon after, the repercussions of which are followed through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the 20th century.
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...
Author
Publisher
North Loop Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On a quiet night in early 1996, Bob Sorenson finds himself alone as he skis the Luce Line Trail--a former rail road grade turned multi-use trail in the prairie of western Minnesota. His friends are somewhere ahead in the deepening dark, but his thoughts lay somewhere else. As Bob travels the trail, trying to catch up with his buddies, the solitude sends his mind wandering into the past, to warm summers with his family--and one particularly cold day...
Author
Series
Claude books (Alex T. Smith) volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Claude and Sir Bobblysock head to the country, where they help out on a farm, but when a fearsome bull interrupts the county fair, Claude must think like a cowboy to save the day.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When their father is taken away suddenly, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are forced to leave London for a simple life in the country. They make new friends and discover the thrill of the railway, eventually unravelling the mystery of his disappearance." --Page 4 of cover.
17) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a little boy persuades his parents to bury his dead pet in the old cemetary near their house, they encounter a mysterious place filled with restless spirits.
18) Firefly summer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern . . . four lovely children . . . and such wonderful dreams. But all that is about to change one fateful summer when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm, and money to burn. As love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart, old traditions begin to crumble away. . . .
Patrick O'Neill builds the grand hotel of his dreams,...
Patrick O'Neill builds the grand hotel of his dreams,...
Author
Series
Linden Corners novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This lyrical debut novel celebrates the joys and tears of love lost and found, and of a life renewed—in a most unexpected place...
At thirty-four, Brian Duncan has it all. A trendy Manhattan life, a high-powered PR job, and a gorgeous fiancée with an exciting future of her own. Then, in a single moment of deception, Brian's world crumbles. Bitterly betrayed, he decides to toss away all he has worked for. Irresistibly drawn to the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Anne Shirley is now sixteen and preparing to take up her new role as a teacher in the local school. She has her best friend Diana Barry by her side and Gilbert Blythe, her childhood enemy, who is now a trusted ally and a fellow teacher. As impulsive as ever, Anne launches into her new career with characteristic vigor.
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