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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up carrying a dead man and a living baby. Isabel decides to keep this "gift from God".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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This powerful new novel by the bestselling author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Richly written, deeply moving, beautifully crafted, Blessings tells the story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker...
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Series
Rock Harbor series volume 5
Language
English
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A mysterious crying in the night leads search-and-rescue worker Bree Matthews and her dog Samson to an abandoned baby in the woods outside of Rock Harbor, Michigan. Against objections from her husband, Bree takes the baby girl in. Quickly she begins a search for the mother-presumably the woman reported missing just days earlier.While teams scour the wintery forests, Bree ferrets out clues about the woman. Where is she and why did she leave the child...
4) The guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
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Description
When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a dsheveled little girl alone on the side of the road. The young teacher is mystified when she learns there have been no reports of a missing child and the girl herself is no help, since she can't speak English. It's as if the child appeared out of nowhere. Jodi, then turns her attention to Hickory Hollow--and the cloistered world of the Old Order Amish--in...
5) Silas Marner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
What is the value of human relations, the connection between souls? In Silas Marner, George Eliot explores this question in the story of a reclusive weaver in a small English town who learns to trade his love of gold for the love of those around him. Though he started life as a religious man, a heartbreaking betrayal drove Silas Marner to become a recluse whose only companions were his gold coins. But one day, his gold is stolen and a golden-haired...
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Language
English
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Description
How far will a mother go to save her child? Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day Ruby reads a magazine article about parents...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A full-length tale about the Halloween creature clan of the Elliotts is told through a series of vignettes about such characters as dream traveler Cecy, her beloved farm boy Tom, and fun-loving but earthbound Uncle Einar.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
An abandoned orphan Gypsy boy Heathcliff is taken in by a well-to-do 19th century English family, the Earnshaws on the isolated moors. He becomes their stable boy and falls in love with the family's spoiled young daughter Catherine Earnshaw, his childhood friend. The beautiful Cathy is desperately in love with Heathcliff, but because of his low birth begins seeing a wealthy neighbor's son. Heathcliff leaves during a misunderstanding and with driving...
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The spirit of the season is spreading through the rustic seaside hamlet of Cape Light, as the residents prepare to celebrate the joy of the holidays. But town mayor Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift when she finds a baby girl tucked away in a decorative cradle set up outside the church, with a note begging whoever discovers the child to take care of her. Aside from signs that the baby's birth mother was a drug abuser, no one...
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Language
English
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Description
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,...