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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...
3) Hidden
Author
Series
Lost and Found volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
At first glance, few would guess that Luna and Cullan Bodman are siblings. Cullan, efficient and serious, is rarely out of a business suit. Luna reads palms and tarot cards, and loves flowing skirts and dangling jewelry that matches her unconventional spirit. Still, her artistic eye is an asset to the family's furniture restoration business. When Cullan stumbles across something unexpected in a piece he just acquired, and a client of Luna's reveals...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go"--
6) Countdown
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Amy and Dan still in pursuit of Pierce, Amy does something unthinkable that sends shockwaves through her family.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
8) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
12) Secrets
Author
Series
A lost and found novel volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When they find themselves saddled with life or death information, two siblings, and owners of an antique shop/caf�e, realize they have no one to turn to but each other.
13) Flashpoint
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Library edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have their final confrontation with twisted billionaire J. Rutherford Pierce, a man whose power has no limits and is one step away from being elected president.
14) The Gift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
16) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kars McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths.
All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go"--
19) The Innocents
Author
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past--and your family--can haunt you like nothing else.... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother-and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect....
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