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1) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Worrying about their sixteen-year-old son Adam in the wake of a friend's suicide, Tia and Mike Baye install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes Adam may have been involved.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents-only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author called "an ingenious master of domestic suspense" (Samantha M. Bailey). In the end, I have only myself to blame. I'm the one who let her in. Jodi Bishop knows success. She's the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karen Kingsbury delivers a powerful new novel about two parents' love for their child and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that their adopted son must be returned to his biological father.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Informed by a stranger that his son was switched at birth with another baby, Pete struggles to adjust to the needs of two families before an investigation unearths disturbing questions about the hospital and the night the exchange occurred.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sharing nothing in common except their sixteen-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
28 p.: col. ill.; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna is unhappy when her tired mother says no to all of her after-school plans but after an evening of letting only Daddy do things for her, Anna cannot go to sleep until she and Mama make up.
8) Owen
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[24] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
9) The yearling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate....
11) The Blue Window
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secrets abound in Lornaās family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years.
Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of her own, sheās determined to make Marika a part of...
13) We wanted you
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the baby that they wanted so much.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Author
Publisher
R & L
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 203 pagesĀ 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through stories of her work with families, the author shows parents how making critical mindshifts-seeing their children's behaviors through a "new lens"-empowers them to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Claire Lerner offers a roadmap forimplementing practical and proven solutions that are based in science and work in real life"--
17) In the yard
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the seasons change, a family shares both fun and chores in their yard.
18) Imaginary friend
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
705 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her new novel, Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood. Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As a young woman driven by these painful memories, Zoe sets the bar high for herself, studying hard and pursuing a career in the nonprofit world, where her deep compassion for disadvantaged children...