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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers and their wives meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of...
3) Mujercitas
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Gaviota, S.A
Pub. Date
[1994?]
Language
Español
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
6) Rebeldes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the youths involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion...
8) Free style
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Cale is forced to put his dreams of becoming a motocross champion on hold to help support his family, but when the opportunity arises to enter into a competition he tries to make his dreams come true.
9) Frank
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A family from the big city spends the summer on an island. They find a stray dog, and together they find that the best thing in life is family.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Although Mo's parents insist he eat zombie cuisine, Mo craves vegetables and strives to get them to taste recipes made from his hidden garden. Includes recipes.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
1992, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Series
Pepita books volume 4
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pepita is afraid that her report about her family members may not be interesting, but she ultimately realizes that all of them play an important role in her life.
13) Ni un día más
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
Teenage Dime has trouble following her parents' rules after her older brother, Darren's, accident that left him a parapalegic, so their parents agree to let Dime move in with Darren.
Author
Series
Publisher
BuzzPop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Miguel's love of music and desire to prove his talent sees him transported to the Land of the Dead where he meets the trickster Hector, and the two embark on a journey to meet Ernesto de la Cruz who holds the key to Miguel's family history.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Publisher
Editorial Noguer
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Greg, stuck indoors with his family over the holiday because of a blizzard, suffers from claustrophobia and worries they will not be able to weather the storm.
Greg Heffley estáen apuros. Han manchado una pared de la escuela y Greg est el principal sospechoso. Aunque, según él, es inocente..., o algo parecido. Parece que la policia anda tras la pista de Greg, pero una tormenta de nieve inesperada deja encerrada a la familia Heffley en casa....
19) Like family
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the delicate fabric of the young family comes undone when Signora...