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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When she discovers her father's new girlfriend, Mariss, is actually a sea creature eager to take her place as his first love, Josephine must convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save her dad from Mariss' clutches.
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English
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"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network
A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet-a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion...
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Jack Henry books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband,...
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Series
Treasures of the Caribbean volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
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Privateer William Hawkes must rethink his vengeful attitude toward the nobility after he captures an English ship carrying the young Kathryne Spenser.
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen to be the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed...
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