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When Adele Schumacher arrives in his office with a bag of cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies and a squad of professional bodyguards, Elvis must find her missing son, a controversial podcaster, before someone else does, bringing him and Joe face-to-face with corrupt politicians and vicious drug cartels.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Worried that his mother will send his beloved grandfather to a nursing home "for his own good," Jesse and some of his eighth-grade classmates accompany Pappy into the mountains near their small California town to look for the tiger tracks he claims to have seen.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafe, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Medina Mason, unpopular and unhappy, finds escape and solace in surfing, but she cannot seem to save her twin brother Jim, caught in the middle of her parents' hostile divorce, from seeking his own escape in drugs and madness.
7) Ride
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When her son drops out of school in New York, a mother drops everything to follow him to California, where she will find herself, her son, and a fresh stars of her own with help from her limo driver and an expert surfer.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A nascent AI, assisted by droids, continues to edge toward world domination and the ruin of humankind, accepting no limits. It fears no one, except John Connor. The machines know John, now 16, is the future head of the resistance and know of his growing abilities. They must find and terminate him. But Sarah Connor is there, protecting and instructing her son as he becomes the man he's destined to be. There will be powerful revelations, breathless...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Jean Ellroy was murdered in 1958. Her body was dumped on a roadway in a run-down L.A. suburb. The killer was never found. The case was closed. It was a sordid back-page homicide that nobody remembered. Except her son. James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous. He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. His life spun hellishly out of control. He ran from the ghost of Jean Ellroy. He became...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A smart, independent brunette named Chelsea may finally have turned party-boy Charlie into a man. Jake locks lips with the cute girl next door, the one whose football-star dad is named Mad Dog. Judith prepares for a midlife baby, who may end up looking a lot like Alan. Alan dates his receptionist, then ends up in bed with her frisky mom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this ... memoir in the vein of The glass castle or The tender bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his...
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Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In less than a year and a half, Liz's mother killed herself and her infant son died unexpectedly. In between these two deaths, Liz was ordained as an Episcopal priest. The Night Lake is the story of finding a way forward through the kind of tragedy that seems like it might be beyond surviving, and trying to do so while holding down a job that's all about leading a community in hope. It's the story of parenting a toddler who is delighted with the...