Holt
1) House arrest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse because the lockdown alarm has just gone off, and there is an intruder in the school building.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the dust jacket. The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. During World War II, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowress, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first...
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a U.S. Army officer's daughter is kidnapped from an American base in Venice, Second Lieutenant Holly Boland, Venetian police captain Kat Tapo, and a genius webmaster join forces to find the missing girl and unravel a plot that reaches back to Italy's wartime past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lyrical Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Desire goes into overtime in this smoking-hot football romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Line of Scrimmage and Forward Pass.
Party girl Tyler Gillette has just one rule: no football players. As the daughter of the owner of the San Antonio Hawks, she grew up in the shadow of the sport and her father's enormous wealth. She was even named Tyler because he wanted a boy. Life couldn't have drawn...
Party girl Tyler Gillette has just one rule: no football players. As the daughter of the owner of the San Antonio Hawks, she grew up in the shadow of the sport and her father's enormous wealth. She was even named Tyler because he wanted a boy. Life couldn't have drawn...
6) Fourth Down
Author
Series
Publisher
Lyrical Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stakes are high even off the field in a scorching romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Pass Interference and Line of Scrimmage.
When her relationship goes up in flames, Holly Funchess jumps straight back into the heat—by becoming a firefighter. Running as far away from her past as she can, Holly trains hard and lands a job with a small San Diego firehouse. With everything to prove, she has no...
When her relationship goes up in flames, Holly Funchess jumps straight back into the heat—by becoming a firefighter. Running as far away from her past as she can, Holly trains hard and lands a job with a small San Diego firehouse. With everything to prove, she has no...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an all-American girl who has seemingly perfect parents. With Cold War rhetoric reaching a fever pitch in 1982, the ten-year-old girls write...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel in Norway, where travelers stranded during a snowstorm start turning up dead. Retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, wheelchair-bound after being paralysed by a bullet lodged in her spine, has no desire to get involved, but her curiosity and natural talent for observation force her to take an interest before panic takes over.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this ... account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. 'Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives,' [this book] finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body is found wearing the sacred robes of a Catholic priest, Captain Kat Tapo of the Carabinieri unravels a dark conspiracy that tests her loyalties.
Author
Series
Kids under the stairs volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, and Knockout!
The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class.
But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them:...
The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows—who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test—and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class.
But these kids aren't dumb—they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them:...
16) A father's love
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the animal kingdom and within snug houses, fathers express love for their children in their own unique ways. Includes facts about the animals featured.
Author
Series
Kids under the stairs volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, four summer school classmates band together to save their teacher and their academic futures after Ms J.'s unorthodox teaching methods are questioned.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Packed with information, hilariously but accurately (well...except for the chickens) illustrated, Hannah Holt and Korwin Briggs' A History of Underwear with Professor Chicken is sure to wedge its way into the annals of history-based picture books. From Paleolithic loincloths to Henry VIII's wives wearing underwear on their heads to Mary Walker, a civil war surgeon who was arrested for wearing men's underwear and clothing to better work on patients,...
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Venetian police captain Kat Tapo investigates an eerie ritualistic murder with ties to a Cold War cover-up and a malevolent Internet virus.