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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Etna bliss has just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed by a man who was dining in the same room--- a man who is so overwhelmed by the sibht of her tha he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna bliss.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the fun-loving and spontaneous artist Willow West meets buttoned-up, retired English teacher George Emerson, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though she does find the obsessive-compulsive man intriguing. Making it her mission to get him to loosen up and embrace life, she embarks on what seems like a lost cause--and finds herself falling for him in the process. A confirmed bachelor, George vacillates between irritation and attraction whenever...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The series set in a future New York City returns as Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly good man - and learns not all people are as innocent as they appear. The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who'd sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
26) The summons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fern Michaels brings together the beloved heroines from two celebrated series --the Sisterhood and the Godmothers -- for a holiday to remember forever...With the holidays approaching Sisterhood member Maggie Spitzer wants to bring joy to a teacher from her past, while Toots and the Godmothers investigate a mystery surrounding a designer at an exclusive Charleston firm -- Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love -- both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
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Series
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling author, "another frontier romance loaded with hot lead, steamy sex and surprising plot twists" (Publishers Weekly).
The past has a way of catching up with folks in Stone Creek, Arizona. But schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets-and deny their instant attraction. That should be easy, since each suspects the other of living a lie. . . .
Yet Rowdy and Lark share...
31) Christmas bells
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/ Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
32) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.
33) Cold fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The classic story of reporter Holly Thorne, who is intrigued by the strange, quiet Jim Ironheart. Jim has saved 12 lives in three months, and now Holly's falling in love with him. But what power compels an ordinary man to be a hero?
34) The Night Child
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks -- ''a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora's body -- the kind of raw terror you feel when...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Laura's teaching position forces her to live away from home for the first time. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks - every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit"--P. [4] of cover..
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Language
English
Description
"Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend's house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina's friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out...
37) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan; she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her...
38) Language Arts
Author
Language
English
Description
Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
39) Plainsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Set in Denver, the separate lives of a school teacher, a pregnant teenage girl, and two elderly bachelors become one small community.
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Series
Language
English
Description
With his wild heart, Sawyer McKettrick is not ready to settle down on the Triple M family ranch in Arizona. So he heads to Blue River, Texas, to seek a job as marshal. But in a blinding snowstorm he is injured, and collapses into the arms of a prim and proper lady in calico. The shirtless, bandaged stranger recuperating in teacher Piper St. James room behind the schoolhouse says he is a McKettrick, but he looks like an outlaw. As they wait out the...