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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
3) One good dog
Author
Series
One good dog volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Adam March loses his job, his wife, and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill a community-service obligation at a soup kitchen, where he meets Chance, a pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being Adam's best shot at redemption.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
Author
Series
DC icons volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. But after a run-in with the police, he's forced to do community...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
Author
Series
Supernatural singles volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In April Asher's new Supernatural Singles novel, a one-night-stand between a willful witch and a broody half-demon conjures an adventure that wouldn't be complete without several magical mishaps. For her entire life, Rose Maxwell trained to become the next Prima on the Supernatural Council. Now that she's stepped down, it's time for this witch to focus on herself. And not think about her impulsive one-night stand with Damian Adams, a half-Demon Veterinarian...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To everyone she meets, Morgan Kemper comes across as sweet, pretty, and put together. But for over a year she's shoplifted countless pieces of clothing and makeup. When she's caught and sentenced to thirty hours of community service, the image Morgan has carefully constructed starts to crumble. Morgan is determined to complete her punishment without her friends discovering the truth. Then she meets Eli, the nephew of the owner of the charity shop...
11) Body heat
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Maura Mahoney's quiet routine as accountant and acting manager at Cherry Lane retirement community is turned upside down when Jesse Blue, a bad boy on a Harley, roars into her life. He has been sentenced to do community service at Cherry Lane. Maura, protective of the seniors, puts him to work in the garden, outside her office window, where she can keep an eye on him. It's an instant attraction of opposites. Though each believes the other is way out...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-or "the misfortune," as his cancer-ridden father's caretaker calls it-Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and infirm. Stripped of his driver's license and feeling impotent as he nears...
13) An everyday hero
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of bad decisions and even crappier luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she's supposed to use music to help anyone deal with their trauma and loss when the one thing that brought her joy...
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