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1) Happy place
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Growing up motherless and under the thumb of a cruel stepfather in hardscrabble 1920s Kentucky, Bertie Fisher and her older sister, Mabel, are torn apart by a painful misunderstanding that reverberates through the lives of their daughters and granddaughters.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
House-sitting a family home in Malibu where she hopes for peace and healing in the aftermath of her daughter's death, Julia is unexpectedly drawn to a handsome man who oversees a lemon orchard, sends his earnings to an extended family in Mexico, and hides the pain of his own daughter's loss.
4) Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
7) Denial
Author
Physical Desc
175 pages : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It’s Nova’s final year of high school and everything is on track for an amazing year. She’s going to ace all her studies and go on to be a doctor. She’s got a spot on the swim team. And she’s in love for the first time ― with Leo, the captain of the swim team.
But things don’t turn out quite like Nova had planned. As her relationship with Leo intensifies, so does her obsession with him and her jealousy over his so-called friendship with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed vacation, her parents deliver shocking news: they are returning to Taiwan and leaving Feng-Li and her older siblings in California on their own.
Suddenly, the three kids must fend for themselves in a strange new world--and get along. Starting a new school, learning a new language, and trying to make new friends while managing a household is hard enough, but Bro and...
10) Once
Author
Series
Once volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.