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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I...
2) Villette
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel, Villette, explores the inner life of a lonely young Englishwoman, Lucy Snowe, who leaves an unhappy existence in England to become a teacher in the capital of a fictional European country. Drawn to the school's headmaster, Lucy must face the pain of unrequited love and the question of her place in society.
3) The betrayal
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young doctor, and Ana, a nursery school teacher, know their happiness is precarious. When Andrei treats the child of a senior secret police officer, it becomes painfully clear that his own fate, and that of his family, is bound to the child's.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
Author
Series
Cavanaughs (Stephanie Laurens) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Bold and clever, THE CAVANAUGHS are unlike any other family in early Victorian England. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues to explore the enthralling world of these dynamic siblings in the eagerly anticipated second volume in her captivating series. A Gentleman of Means One of the most eligible bachelors in London, Lord Christopher "Kit" Cavanaugh has discovered his true path and it doesn't include the expected society...
Author
Series
Western life volume no. 8
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Series
When calls the heart volume season 3, movie 4
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth, Jack and the rest of their friends find new challenges in Hope Valley. While Elizabeth is guiding a young girl in her class to excel in the upcoming science fair, Jack finds himself reuniting a reluctant couple. Elizabeth's friend Rosemary must decide if she will stay in Hope Valley or leave to pursue her dream of stardom, while Abigail must face the estranged aunt of the children she has taken in.
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a quiet girls' school in Bath, but she hardly imagines coming face to face with French aristocrats and international spies. Guest appearances by Dempsey's best friend Jane Austen and characters from previous installments of the Pink Carnation series round out this holiday-themed romance of intrigue.
12) Simply magic
Author
Series
Simply quartet (Mary Balogh) volume 3
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Susan Osbourne is a teacher at a girls' school in Bath, who has been alone in the world since she lost her father and home at age 12. During a visit to a friends estate she meets Viscount Whitleaf, Peter Edgeworth, who has a connection to her childhood home. They develop a friendship and eventually bring out the best in each other.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is determined to clear her name and get her job back. With the help of Abigail and the support of the children, the odds are looking good for Elizabeth to return as the schoolteacher. However, Jack receives some troubling news that forces him to make a very important decision with significant consequences to his relationship with Elizabeth.
Series
Publisher
Frontier Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
15) Christy
Publisher
Goodtimes Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A young teacher goes to the Blue Ridge Mountains to teach the impoverished rural children of the region.
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was an American school teacher who in 1941 who along with her husband, Foster agreed to teach the Natives on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. They were both sixty-two years old when they left Alaska's mainland for Attu against the advice of friends and family. Etta, and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this...