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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A virulent pandemic has turned neighbor against neighbor in America's heartland. Trapped inside their suburban home, Ann Brooks and her family face choices in a world where opening a door could threaten all that they hold dear.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel of a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Author
Series
Safe harbors volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In a contemporary family saga set in San Diego, God's healing hand refines a husband and wife through a fatal fire that ultimately serves to re-ignite their passion for their marriage.
6) Sail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Miller, in her dazzlingly ambitious and hilarious first novel, introduces us to the unforgettable Haven family of Akron, Ohio. This is not your typical Midwestern family, and Lowell Haven is a most unusual patriarch. He's a seducer, a wannabe aristocrat, a liar. Jenny, his former wife, was a brilliant artist, but is today a broken woman with a secret.
In the thirty years since Lowell and Jenny met, Lowell has become a world-famous artist,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Two drunks--Ty Bonte, a rancher's son, and Harney Rivers, the town's rich boy--beat two Indians, leaving them for dead, although the Indians don't die because Ty returns to save them. Twenty-two years later the families of the Indians demand justice. By the author of Strange Angels.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
18) Skin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
19) Borrowed light
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old feels alienated from her family while struggling with the difficult decisions surrounding her unplanned pregnancy.