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A novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from the acclaimed author of Heart Like Mine.
The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott’s world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter’s organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, survived only...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Richard Carlson's sudden, tragic death in 2006 left his millions of fans reeling and his wife and partner Kristine grief stricken. This work features one of the many of Richard's letters to his beloved wife, and her heartfelt response.--Publisher description.
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Publisher
Propeller Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy lives next door to a retired opera singer and his pet dog, Giovanni. The three are friends, but when the old man dies, friendship renews and continues between the boy and the dog as they strive to overcome the loss of the friend who brought them together in the first place.
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Arthur Less novels volume 1
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English
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.QUESTION How do you arrange to skip town?ANSWER You accept them all.What...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A multigenerational story about two families living in the shadow of nuclear apocalypse. The year is 1959. Two young soldiers, Drummond and Carter, one working-class, the other privileged, form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doomtown", a training center that simulates the aftermath of an atomic strike. Years later, the men watch the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in horror. Carter, now a high-ranking British government official,...
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Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After Cheryl witnesses her father's tragic death in a riding accident, she is sent to live with her last remaining relatives on their country ranch. Hoping to overcome her fear of horses, Cheryl is introduced to Black Beauty and the two form a friendship.
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Robert Parrish's childhood obsession with series books like the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift inspired him to become an author. Just as his debut novel becomes a bestseller, his relationship with his girlfriend, Rebecca, begins to fall apart. Robert realizes he must confront his secret demons by fulfilling a youthful promise to solve a mystery surrounding his favorite series--the Tremendous Trio. Guided by twelve tattered books and an unidentified but...
13) Slumming
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Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In their senior year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an "experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs attention and try to improve that person's life.
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Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who's stalking them--and each other.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping out her friend, Edward's daughter--who lives far away and asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life. As Edward and Isabel...
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English
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Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway....
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
19) Wish girl
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Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
20) After ever after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.