Tawni O'Dell
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the town of Coal Run, the local deputy, Ivan Zoschenko, a permanently-injured one-time football legend branded for life as "The Great Ivan Z," spends a week seemingly preparing for an old teammate's imminent release from prison. He is surrounded by a rich cast of characters: his wise and comic ex-beauty-queen sister; his former idol, Val Claypool; and the young woman whose life he changed forever. During the events of this week, Ivan Confronts...
2) Sister mine
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.