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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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English
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"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie)...
3) Seedfolks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. .
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pa Brindle can't sleep, Ma Brindle whips up a special Sweet Dream Pie and invites all the neighbors to share the treat. But when everyone eats too much and their wild dreams start to take over the neighborhood, it's Ma who knows how to sweep those dreams into peaceful sleep.
5) The whispers
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Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
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Series
Wortham family volume 2
Publisher
F.H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In this true-to-life story set during the Depression, the Wortham family tries to help a family of ten children when their mother passes away.
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
12) Legacy Lane
Author
Series
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Angie Hunter reluctantly returns to Hart's Crossing after being passed over for a promotion at work and now her mother, recovering from surgery, has a chance to make a new connection with her estranged daughter.
13) Windows
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Walking his dog at dusk, a boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in the lit windows along his route through the neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Convinced that pizza is the best food, Pipo will eat nothing else until her fed-up parents send her on a quest to prove that no dishes in their multicultural neighborhood are better.
Author
Publisher
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In North Carolina's tight-knit Oak Knoll neighborhood, professor Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented bi-racial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans, an apparently traditional family, move in next door. Popular local businessman Brad has new money, ambition, a wife who escaped her upbringing in a trailer park, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter. With little in common except a property...
Author
Series
Mary had a little glam volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fashion-forward Mary is known for adding flair everywhere she goes. When she spots an abandoned lot in her neighborhood, Mary knows she can use her stylish talent to spruce it up. Soon she's rallying neighborhood shops and calling on her friends to help. With Mary leading the way, this group carries out her little plan that has a big impact on her community!" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Samuel Wortham's brother is out of prison and shows up with a young girl named Katie who he claims is Samuel's daughter. As Samuel fights to convice Julia of his faithfulness, the rest of the family struggles to find the truth and decide what to do with Katie.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Early in the morning, a bird begins to sing at number One Fish Street, waking the man next door and his dog, and before long, as one noise leads to another, everyone on the street is awake.
Author
Series
Poplar kids volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A friendly neighborhood business competition between sixth-graders Rachel Chambers, so quiet she is practically invisible, and Peter S. Gronkowski, future mogul, turns into a ruthless rivalry.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mother rabbit and her young bunny are on their way home in the dark night. My mother carries me through the quiet streets, the bunny explains. Most of our neighbors are already home. The bunny can see their lights in the windows, and hear and smell what they might be doing: talking on the phone, pulling a pie out of the oven, having a party, saying goodbye. When they reach home, the father rabbit tucks the bunny into bed. But the bunny continues...