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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee...
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Sebastian Becker mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Investigating a wealthy landowner whose sanity has come into question, Sebastian Becker stumbles on a murder case involving two young girls, a traumatized suffragette and monsters who hide in plain sight.
5) Stargirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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English
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"A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader...
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"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
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"A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular...
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Berrybender narratives volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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Language
English
Description
In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed. Across California, into Nevada, and back again, Odd embarks on a riveting road chase to prevent the tragedy. Along the way, he meetsand charms a collection of eccentrics who become his allies in a terrifying battle against a sociopath of singular boldness and cleverness--and...
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Overseeing her baby, a family wedding, and her own approaching birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with an inventor only to discover his true intentions.
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Adrian Monk novels volume 5
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English
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Adrian Monk has journeyed into the realm of the cult science fiction show 'Beyond Earth,' where he meets fans just as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Monk is at their convention because there may be a killer lurking in the 'Beyond Earth' community: someone in a starship uniform has very publicly gunned down the show's legendary creator, Conrad Stripe. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to an exploitative Hollywood producer or is there...
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