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2) Long Island
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work--The Lady with the Dark Hair--her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Morgan and Benji invite their families to their wedding in Maine, they know the news will come as a shock after keeping their relationship secret. Twelve years have passed since the stunning loss of Benji's sixteen-year-old sister Alice, who was also Morgan's best friend, and no one is quite the same. But the young couple decide to leap headfirst into marriage and have asked their fractured families to finally come together, marking the first...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In season four, the shows explosive twists and turns resume, as Empire Entertainment embarks on a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Lucious makes his first public appearance after the explosion in Las Vegas, and all members of the Lyon family have their own interests in Lucious regaining his physical and mental faculties. Meanwhile, Cookie begins to revisit her 17 years in prison, in a series of flashbacks. Throughout the season, Lucious, Cookie...
Author
Series
In the Clutch volume 4
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
Ã2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Aaron is a 12-year-old baseball phenom, but only when hes playing in the field. At the plate, he struggles. Now, its the last inning of the last game of the season, and Aarons in the batters box, down by one with the bases loaded. Just as he steps up to the plate, Aaron spots his superstar-athlete older brother, Will, who completely abandoned him at the worst possible time. Can Aaron come through in the clutch when his team needs him most, and will...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the upheaval in her life when her father, who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her, is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
12) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
Español
Description
Fourth grader Saraí Gonzalez can do anything. She can bake, dance, and run her own cupcake business. But when Saraí's grandparents are forced to move, even Saraí's not sure what to do. So she hatches a super-awesome plan with her younger sisters and cousin to buy back the house. Will Saraí find a way to save the day?
Esta chica de cuarto grado puede hornear, bailar y administrar su propio negocio. Pero cuando a sus abuelos los obligan a mudarse...
14) Darkest fear
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her parents, Vivi reunites with her long-lost family and learns more about her heritage as a haguari--a person who can shapeshift into a jaguar"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
17) Ruby in the sky
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn't...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Dolphin is determined to stay with her family, no matter what, but when her sister goes to live with her newly-discovered father, sending their mother further into manic-depression, Dolphin's life takes a turn for the better.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
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