Juliet Mills
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
4) Avanti!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1972
Language
English
Description
Wealthy businessman Wendell Armbruster travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers his father had been having an affair there for years. Things get complicated when the mistress's daughter shows up and they fall for each other--in the midst of the disappearances of their parents' bodies.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white Kona Snow of the surrounding coffee trees.
Publisher
[MCA] Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
As a footloose cowhand, Stewart is hired to chaperone a prize Hereford bull and its eccentric British owners to its new master, an outrageous Scottish cattle baron looking to create a new breed. Stewart and his ladies fight off cattle stampedes, desperados, and the rough river to deliver the goods and end up discovering each other.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Writer/detective Jessica Fletcher continues to follow the clues to uncover the truth, both at home in the charming town of Cabot Cove and on her many travels. With incredible guest stars and plot twists that leave viewers wanting more.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Edward Lannion is to marry the lovely Marian Fox. But on the eve of the wedding, Marian's note leaves everyone in a tizzy and full of questions: Where is Marian? And who is Jackson? In this intricately plotted novel, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancé, sending them both off on strange, dark, and amusing paths.