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(0)Caroline Leavitt
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway and one of them is killed. The survivor is left to pick up the pieces of not only her own life but the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman left behind. As these three lives intersect, Pictures of You asks how well we really know the people we love, and how do we forgive the unforgivable? Riveting, hopeful, and unsettling, it is an exploration of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"--
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been...
3) Samurai
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Describes the samurai, including their history, weapons, and way of life.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of England, each one believing that the other has the easier life.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant shortly after sentencing, she reluctantly decides to give...
Author
Series
Wishbone mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Wishbone and his friends try to find out what is causing the mysterious happenings in the old 1930s clubhouse that Joe wins in a raffle.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As he and Joe try to get to the eighth-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted island for nearly thirty years.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her boyfriend and at odds with her parents for choosing open adoption, Sara, a sixteen-year-old honor student, is sustained by her relationship with her daughter's adoptive parents until they become threatened by her increasing obsession with the baby and make a decision that has devastating consequences for everyone.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife...
