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2) Dark horses
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Merritt Wenner has been sent to an equine therapy program where she meets Red--a failed racehorse and a terror in the barn--and begins competitive hunter/jumper riding, finding herself drawn to the groom, Beatrice, and a rival rider, Carvin.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A hiking trip in the woods in upstate New York is out of the comfort zone for sixteen-year-old city girl Callie Velasquez, but she wants to bond with her new friends Lissa and Penelope, not to mention her new boyfriend, Jeremy. However, nothing could have prepared her for the true human darkness that waits for her in the wood.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a hit-and-run accident kills her mother and leaves her badly injured, Sasha, formerly homeless, is taken in by wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who has never recovered from the loss of her own daughter and wants Sasha to take her place.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taking place over decades, this latest novel...is a compelling family saga that follows troubled math genius Milo Andret from birth to death. Milo goes from inauspicious beginnings in rural Michigan to solving a decades-old mathematical problem and teaching at Princeton...He becomes his own worst enemy, cutting short a promising career because of his alcoholism and womanizing. The second half of the novel is told by his son, who inherits many of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A DATE WITH DESTINY
The moment she turns twenty-five, Kayla Bedford is going to grab her trust-fund money and take off for Paris. She'll drink wine, read at quaint cafés and meet a handsome prince who'll sweep her off her feet. It's been her dream since she was twelve. And now she's so close to realizing it, she's counting down the days.
But first she's got to do something for her boss-slash-landlord-slash-best-friend. Patrick is a...
The moment she turns twenty-five, Kayla Bedford is going to grab her trust-fund money and take off for Paris. She'll drink wine, read at quaint cafés and meet a handsome prince who'll sweep her off her feet. It's been her dream since she was twelve. And now she's so close to realizing it, she's counting down the days.
But first she's got to do something for her boss-slash-landlord-slash-best-friend. Patrick is a...
Author
Series
Owl diaries volume 4
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of her best friend.
10) Looker: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what...
11) I invited her in
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university. But Abi is recovering from a bad breakup and needs Mel's help, and she wants a place to stay. Just for a few days, while she sorts things out. It's the least Mel can do. After all, friends look out for each other, don't they? But when glamourous Abi...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.
13) Riding the storm
Author
Series
Dragonsdale volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Breena's determination to secure a position with the guard flight by qualifying for the Island Championship pits her against her best friend, Cara, and damages the Trustbond she has with her dragon, Moonflight.
16) The baby swap
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Caroline Crocodile goes to a baby shop to see if she can exchange her drooly brother, but finds that the baby panda is a fussy eater, the baby elephant too squirty--and her brother has reason to drool.
Author
Series
Plumdog volume 2
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Plum revels in being her family's special dog, so she is not thrilled when she suddenly has to compete with Binky the cat"--
Author
Series
Jim Henson's Enchanted sisters volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Flurry, a pet polar bear, becomes jealous and runs off to play with the Weeds, who are always causing trouble, the adventurous Winter will need the help of all of her enchanted Sparkle Sisters to get him back.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Noticing the attention showered on her mother and new baby brother William, an exuberant Olivia adorns her pet dog and cat with baby clothes, renames them Olivia 1 and Olivia 2 and takes them out in a stroller.
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