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1) Homebody
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
This romantic ghost story relies on a familiar horror backbone: a stranger with a tragic past moves into an old house that also has a tragic past, and is forced to reckon with the supernatural forces that dwell there. In Homebody, the stranger is an itinerant architect-builder who makes a lonely living by purchasing fixer-uppers, renovating them, and selling them. The house he buys in Greensboro, North Carolina, (where Orson Scott Card lives, in real...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Grieving and guilty over a friend's death, Penny is not surprised when her mother sends her to live with her father and stepmother, April, but when April takes her to help restore an old house in a dense forest, weird occurences connected to missing children threaten Penny's safety and fragile mental health.
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