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1) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
A Yoto Original adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. The perfect introduction to this heartwarming story for young listeners. Narrated by Nerissa Bradley and brought to life with music, sound effects, and a full cast.
When their father is away serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, the March sisters are faced with the trials and tribulations of life, forcing them all to grow up in more ways than one. Follow Meg, Jo, Beth...
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk. Patience is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him a mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him, even as she struggles to mend him. But when Patience Sparrow's herbs and tinctures are believed to be implicated in a local tragedy, Granite Point is consumed by...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of a reclusive 29-year-old who has a secret (and famous) life on the Internet. Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister,...
Author
Series
Sparrow sisters volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate."--
Author
Series
Tinfoil dossier novels volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Black Helicopters is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated original. Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency's world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable. Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006?
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In New England in the late nineteenth-century, a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Messina knows that knitting is enjoyable, so she's happy to visit two sisters, Rose and Holly Piper, to teach them some simple stitches with the Black Sheep knitters. The lesson goes well, but the knitters are troubled about the sisters living alone in a remote corner of Plum Harbor. Their fears are realized when Holly is attacked in her greenhouse and the building set ablaze. Rose is found nearby, her dogs running wild. While everything seems...
10) Amity
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors.
Author
Series
Montague twins volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Alastair, Pete, Charlie, and Rachel aren't just magical teen detectives in their coastal town of Port Howl--they are also members of a local teen rock band. Before a show one night, Charlie and Rachel meet a famous rockstar, Gideon, and invite him to their show. He'll never come, but why not try, right? Little do they know, Gideon does show up, and he brings the threads of his dark past with him. In fact, he might even be the source of the rumored...
12) Little women
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
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