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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War!! and into the close of the twentieth century.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar (good and bad) follwoing vast inheritances from wealthy old families. Only "Cool Koko" knows what's happening ... and he's not telling. Jim Qwilleran thinks it's because he has more whiskers than ordinary cats, but who's counting?"--Publisher website (March 2007).
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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While the residents of Pickax eagerly await a festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the town's founding, newspaper columnist James Qwilleran must entertain Harvey Ledfield, an aspiring architect. Strange occurrences seem to follow Harvey around. Koko, the Siamese cat, leaps on his head, a knitter predicts murder, and a woman comes from California to leave a message for Qwill. It's up to Koko to help Qwill piece the clues together. -- from...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Spring comes to Moose County and Jim Qwilleran wonders if the yowlings of Koko and Yum Yum are more than just accompaniment to the birds singing outside his windows. Could the cats know who is at the bottom of recent mischief and mayhem?
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Series
Sweetest kisses novels volume 3
Language
English
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"Single mom Sidonie Lindstrom has her hands full with a troubled foster son, an abrupt adjustment to country living, and an unforeseen lack of funds. When her taciturn neighbor, MacKenzie Knightley, repeatedly offers practical help, Sid reminds herself she's not interested--despite his kindness, pragmatism, and quiet charm. MacKenzie sees the vulnerability beneath her pride, and he's determined to change her mind."-- back cover.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"I don't know who was most excited that morning when the three of us hoisted packs on our backs and started off down the trail. Just before we disappeared from view of our yard, I turned for one more wave. You woulda thought we were marching off to war or something ... They all looked glad and sad at the same time ... ". On the brink of manhood, young Josh faces important questions about life, love, and himself.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The people of Pickax are in a state of eager anticipation. The Pirate's Chest, the long-awaited new bookstore, is finally set to open, and the Theatre Club is preparing to perform Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. However, the play is brought to an abrupt halt as a cast member is killed in a car accident. But was it really an accident? As suspicions rise, Qwill and his sleuthing Siamese cats have their work cut out for them.
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
"Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different, but equally intriguing people. Plagued by loneliness, regret, abandonment and loss, fate will unite them in a dilapidated estate house in Northern Scotland. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that these five people will find each other and, ultimately, find themselves."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A film star returns to Pickax but her arrival is marred by the birdnapping of her Amazon parrots, and the circumstances of her brother's death appear increasingly suspicious to columnist James Qwilleran.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When the Cuthberts adopt a child, they expect a boy. To their surprise, an imaginative, impulsive red-haired girl arrives instead. Green Gables will never be the same again. Join Anne on her many adventures on Prince Edward Island in this much-loved story from Lucy Maud Montgomery. Presented in a beautiful slipcase edition featuring brand-new illustrations by Luisa Uribe, this classic tale of mischief, romance, and friendship is sure to delight readers...
13) Unsettled ground
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
14) All pets allowed
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Series
Blackberry Farm volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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."--
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Series
Little Elliot volume 4
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
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Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
20) A winter's rime
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Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Moe is a twenty-five-year-old veteran Army mechanic, living with her girlfriend, Andrea, and working overnights at a gas station store while figuring out what's next. Andrea's off-grid cabin provides a perfect sanctuary for Mallory, a synesthete with a hypersensitivity to sound that can trigger flashbacks from her childhood. The getaway that's largely abandoned during the off season starts out idyllic, until Andrea's once-loving behavior...
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