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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"--
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
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...
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.
5) 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
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
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library.--
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this sharp new comedy-drama, an unlikely group of lawbreakers is forced together in a community payback project. When seven strangers are thrown together in a community service scheme, they realize they couldn't be more different. Having broken the law, in their hometown of Bristol, is the one thing they have in common. As new friendships emerge, dark secrets are revealed. And when the group gets drawn into dangerous criminal activity, they must...
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...
14) What you hide
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a tragic death at Fairview Public Library, frequent patron Mallory and community service volunteer Spencer discover they are not as alone, or as safe, as they thought.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After failing to come to Belinda's aid while she was being attacked, Emily and another classmate are punished by being forced to work at a community center for people with disabilities, but they are put the ultimate test when Belinda finally returns to school and they must find a way to make amends to her"--
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...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star is forced to do community service at a local mega-church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual passion play only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
18) 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
Feiwel And Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an incident regarding a crossing guard and a bottle of Martini Rosso (and his delinquent friends), 17-year-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and do some community service to avoid any further problems. He takes a knitting clsss (it was that or his father's mechanic class) with the impression that it's taught by the hot teacher all the boys like. Turns out, it's not. Perfect. Regardless, he...
20) Step up
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland...
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