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1) The cousins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Misty Heiress steals drugs from a pharmacy, just trying to help her cousin in constant pain, but the plan snowballs into dealing opioids and Misty and her cousin Jillian are in real trouble.
4) Play ball!
Author
Series
Little league volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace, & Co
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
Author
Series
Little League volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Liam and Carter work hard to earn positions on their regional All Star baseball teams"--
Author
Series
Secret life of squirrels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Peanuts, a most unusual squirrel, is lonely as Valentine's Day nears but he meets Rosie in the bookstore and soon they are nuts about each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie - a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and...
10) Highland master
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her cousin tries to take her land in the Scottish Highlands after her husband's death, Lady Triona McKee finds herself falling in love with Sir Brett Murray, her cousin's boldest knight, but doubts that she can trust him.
Author
Series
Henry and Mudge books volume 13
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At first Henry's very neat cousin doesn't like the cookies from under his bed or Mudge's slobbery kisses, but when they all play frisbee, she begins to enjoy her visit.
Author
Series
Lulu (Hilary McKay) volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious bag is left on Lulu's doorstep, the last thing her grandmother expects to be in it is a cat--a huge, neon orange cat. But Lulu knows this cat doesn't mean any harm and in fact it needs a lovely new home"--
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tyler writes a letter home each of the twelve days he spends exploring Iowa at Christmastime, as his cousin Olivia shows him everything from a goldfinch in an oak tree to twelve "mutton busters." Includes facts about Iowa.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives. Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits are a niche market at best. She's working hard to build her brand on social media and struggling to pay the rent. Her estranged cousin has become internet-famous...
Author
Language
English
Description
After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fiance šubsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorcee Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India, to join her and Chess on Tuckernuck Island for a month, a time when deep secrets are soon revealed.
18) On guard
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Dragon keepers volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Cousins Jesse and Daisy, along with their pet dragon, continue their battle against the evil scientist who has plans to destroy the forest in order to find the magical golden ax that is buried there.
Author
Series
Cupcake coven romances volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bewitched meets Practical Magic in this bubbly, quirky romantic comedy with an enchanted twist from acclaimed author Elizabeth Bass. When romance problems cause their powers to go berserk, a trio of witches whose family was banned from practicing magic risk getting in serious trouble with the Grand Council of Witches. Can they get their magic--and their love lives--in order before it's too late?"--
Zenobia, New York. Nearly a century ago Gwen Engel's...
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