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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Anna's family is moving from Taiwan to California in America, the beautiful country. But it is nothing like what she imagined: their one-bedroom apartment is tiny. At school she is taunted for the food she brings. The restaurant...
2) Finally seen
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a new team firmly in place, DI Humphrey Goodman is finally settled on the beautiful island of Saint Marie. Feeling as though something is still missing from his life, Goodman enlists DS Florence Cassell to help him crack the complexities of the dating world. Fortunately for the citizens of Saint Marie, Humphrey is much better at using his considerable intellect to solve the island's most perplexing murder cases.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bilal's family suddenly moves to America, his father stays in Pakistan, and Bilal embraces baseball, an unexpected friend, and a new language. But this new way of life does not feel so special without Baba--will he ever get to America to see Bilal pitch a game?
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
In 1987 Betty Mahmoody captured the world's attention and admiration with the compelling and heartrending story of her virtual imprisonment in Iran and subsequent daring escape with her daughter Mahtob. With over fifteen million copies sold worldwide, Not Without My Daughter topped international bestseller lists and alerted the world to the implications of inter cultural relationships and the issue of international parental child abduction. Five years...
11) Life fine tuned
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a self-absorbed teen pop-idol (aptly, named Star) who throws one too many tantrums during rehearsals for her new music video. Star drives off in a fury expecting an apologetic call from her manager at any moment. Now lost in rural Virginia, Star is taken in by a Christian family who live a lifestyle in stark contrast to the world of the pop star. Inspired by the Madison family's faith, kindness and mutual love of music, Star begins...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
More love, laughs and Hart in a small Southern town! Season two opens with native New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart continuing her medical practice and beginning to find roots in tiny BlueBell, Alabama. As if Zoe's sizzling connection with bad boy bartender Wade Kinsella and strong emotional ties to sexy lawyer George Tucker aren't enough to send her over the edge, an election scandal is brewing between her best friend, Mayor Lavon Hayes, and his opponent,...
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