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English
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As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking...
Author
Series
Nantucket volume 2
Language
English
Description
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
Author
Language
English
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Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Series
Brill research perspectives in quaker studie volume 3.2
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, a girl faces prejudice and accusations of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Connecticut. Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her...
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of the author's Pennsylvania Quaker family and the shadow cast on it by her brother's suicide at age fourteen during the tumultuous Vietnam War era. Taylor grapples with understanding the complexities of religious heritage, pacifism, and patriotism as she places her family's story within the context of recent American history"--Provided by publisher.
12) Home to harmony
Author
Series
Harmony novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that describe the everyday adventures of the residents of the small country town of Harmony.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
15) Simon Birch
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The smallest kid in town gets into constant trouble and teams up with his best friend who is searching for his real father.
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