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1) This lullaby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
2) Snagged
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Regan Reilly is in South Beach to be in her friends wedding and to spend time with hier mystery-writing mother and elegant funeral director father.A pantyhose convention is where the mystery starts.
3) Habibi
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
4) Recessional
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A young doctor in an old people's center rescues a woman from a car accident in which she loses a leg. He takes her to hospital and disappears for fear of another malpractice suit, but she tracks him down, though not to sue him. Lots of detail on geriatrics.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In tumultuous seventeenth-century Britain, ambition, family, and love collide I was beginning to realize that there was something unusual about our marriage . . . When fifteen-year-old Sarah Standish runs off to London to be an actress, she discovers a city beyond her wildest dreams. But the most exciting fantasy of all is the real-life stranger who sweeps her off her feet. Sarah marries Jack Adair, the thrillingly handsome Lord Rosslyn. She's...
8) 1920's: Luck
Author
Series
Century kids volume 4
Publisher
Millbrook Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1927 the Dixons move from rural Georgia to Chicago, where African Americans have more opportunities, and there Lorraine meets a famous movie actress and her little brother Marcus finds that his artistic talents are useful.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a property in New York State, Annette Byrne, 85, organizes a reunion to bring peace to her warring family. They include two sons who are involved in a court case and do not speak to each other, a granddaughter whose inter-faith marriage is on the skids and another granddaughter who is divorcing.
11) Shy Ann
Author
Series
Writer/in volume 1
Publisher
M. Frederick]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
D.H. Dayne's mission is to become a recognized writer. By following a travel chart crated by his librarian sister, Dayne is spun back into incredible past lives, mystery and romance; all for the chance to live in the present.
13) Somebody's Baby
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A study of a young woman's search for the truth, and of the painful possibility that we may not get answers to every question; that we may also get some answers we don't like, but, ultimately, we might just discover what matters most to us.
14) Little green men
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The strange land of Washington, D.C., is teeming with aliens, politicians, and other bizarre life-forms. Beltway insider and stuffy talk-show host John Oliver Banion finds his priviledged life turned topsy-turvy when he is abducted by aliens from his exclusive country-club golf course.
15) Whispers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It can happen in the best of families--even the Fergusons. When Lynn and Robert first meet, she's bright, fresh-faced twenty-year old; he's handsome, a bit older, a charming young executive on the fast track. From the start they fall deeply in love, thrilled by the discovery of their mutual desire. But as early as their honeymoon the gold begins to tarnish, when Robert's anger erupts into a physical assault, one for which Lynn blames herself. To...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
17) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
19) Too far
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
During the Depression era of the 1930s, Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father. Includes a reader's guide.