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"The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem waśŒsomething smelled badĺike, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Abandoning her abusive fiancé in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
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Red River of the North volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Books that drive kids crazy! volume 3
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in which Federico rides his bicycle to the market for Abuelo's groceries, then stands up to a hungry wolf. Includes a recipe for pico de gallo and glossary of Spanish terms.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this adaptation of the Little Red Hen fable, Ruby wants to build a fort, but her three brothers refuse to help, so when the fort is finished Ruby will not let them join her--until the boys come up with a few embellishments for the fort, like a mailbox, a garden, and a fresh coat of paint.
11) Lucky
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Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Lucky is a young red squirrel who was rescued from a hawk, and now must somehow make his home among the Cloudfoot clan of the larger, gray squirrels who live in the city park--and trouble is brewing for the rival gray squirrels known as the Northenders are planning an invasion.
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Cash Blackbear novels volume 1
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three and has kept an eye out for her ever since. Cash navigated through a succession of white foster homes, and at thirteen was working on farms. She's tough as nails and makes her living driving trucks. It's a rough place to live -- Fargo-Moorhead in the early 1970s. Wheaton wants her to take hold of her life, stop fooling around with...
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2022.
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English
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"In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. Based on a true story. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester,...
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Bad boys of Red Hook volume 1
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Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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It would take a miracle for Storm Decker to return to Red Hook- or a tragedy. The neighborhood holds too many painful memories but when the ex-cop he'd come to consider his father falls ill, Storm is called home to face the past he tried to leave behind. Breanna Collins never expected to see Storm again after he left town and broke her heart. She's angry that he cannot seem to appreciate the changes in the neighborhood but still feels a powerful connection...
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Red River of the North volume 3
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Ingeborg Bjorkland and her husband Haaken are succeeding in the Dakota Territory despite the heartache and body-breaking labor, and when Hjelmer travels west to work on the railroad, Penny fears that he won't keep his promise to return.
17) For the wolf
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Wilderwood novels volume 1
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English
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As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again. But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use it,...
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In this version of Little Red Riding Hood, set on the African plains, Little Red realizes what the Very Hungry Lion is up to, and teaches him a lesson before generously sharing her donuts with him.
19) Red River
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Series
Rivers West volume 10
Publisher
Books In Motion
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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