Christina Moore
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of a dead infant shakes Lancaster County to its core. Circumstantial evidence suggest that 18-year-old Katie, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the mother, took the newborn's life. Attorney Ellie Hathaway faces a system of justice very different from her own.
3) The betrayal
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Though confident that their love will survive a separation, Leah, Jonas, and their families will face a bitter test.
4) The covenant
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four sisters in Lancaster County witness the secrets of their tiny home community as Leah suffers from her sister Sadie's shameful loss of innocence with an English boy and finds her own dreams of love with Jonas spinning out of control.
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Conclusion to the series spanning three generations in a quaint Old Order Amish community. It presents a suspenseful story of long-awaited forgiveness, undying love, and second chances in Pennsylvania's Amish country. It also continues the uplifting story of love and faith featuring five courting-age sisters and their extended family.
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Beverly Lewis Bestseller, Beautifully Repackaged In The Prodigal, Leah Ebersol knows all too well that the truth can be thorny, even heartbreaking. But when an alarming secret is brought to light, she must make another difficult choice, one that could be further complicated by a prodigal who few expected to return.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at an early age, Gillian and Sally Owen are raised by an aunt who deals in sorcery. The girls long for the normal life and leave home as soon as they can. Years later tragedy strikes and it is then they realize that magic is their gift, not their affliction. By the author of Illumination Night.
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie Holloway, a fashion photographer, goes to visit an old friend in Newport, Rhode Island. When she arrives, the friend is dead, the victim of a violent robbery. Maggie is stunned when she learns that she's the beneficiary of the will, and even more stunned when she recognizes something that will lead the killer straight to her.
11) High wizardry
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.
12) Wizard's holiday
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.
14) A wizard abroad
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent on vacation to her aunt's home in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita becomes entangled in a magic battle to save the country from the ghosts of its past. To give Nita a vacation from magic, Nita's parents pack her off for a month-long stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Ireland is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare Ireland-a...
15) Deep wizardry
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
16) Zia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
17) The quilt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Truly Beautiful Story That Transcends Time and Place The Quilt is the story of Mary, an elderly grandmother whose gnarled, arthritic hands have a beauty all their own. They represent so many skills, so many memories, so many stories to be told. Anyone who had met Mary described her as beautiful--she had always been there to listen and comfort and encourage those who were in pain, those who had lost their way. And yet in the twilight of her days,...
18) Go ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
19) Alice the Brave
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders ... but her fear is worse. It's going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she's afraid of deep water!
It's a hot August, and everyone in Alice's gang goes to Mark Stedmeister's swimming pool...
20) Wizards at war
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange darkness of the mind overcomes the older wizards, stealing away their power, and forcing the younger wizards to go to war to save the world.