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1) The nest
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. What happens to them--and the large and small manners in which it echoes through the lives of so many other people--is...
5) Warlight
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the...
6) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
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Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a dystopian government controls every aspect of society, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood may be the world's only hope in this magical beginning of James Patterson's Witch & Wizard series.
The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents...
The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents...
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of six. A strange family moves into an old nearby mansion, and the Meredith children join the Blythes in new adventures.
10) The immortalists
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1969 in New York City; a traveling psychic arrives who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The 4 Gold children sneak out to hear their fortunes, which inform their next 5 decades. Both a dazzling family love story and a sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, this book probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. [From publisher's description]
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Joe and Frank suspect there is a link between the counterfeiting case they are investigating, and the case their father can't discuss. Determined to learn the secret, the Hardy Boys get themselves into a scrape.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth...
17) The Saturdays
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four New York City siblings decide to pool their resources so that each can do a special thing on the Saturday that is his turn to receive the combined allowance.
20) Nowhere to run
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Guardians of the 39 Clues, Dan Cahill and his sister Amy discover that the serum is missing and must race against time to get it back before catastrophe strikes
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