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2) Missing May
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
5) The gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget. The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating...
7) Glory Field
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of one family whose history saw slavery at its very rawness. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle and hope. And of the piece of land that holds them together through it all
8) The outsider
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical fictional account of the Jewish people in the new land and the challenges that they must face in themselves and their relationships and the evolution of a marriage at odds with itself.
Author
Language
English
Description
As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything: power, position, a career and a family that mean everything to him and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key in Peter Haskell's life, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. She is trapped in a web of duty and obligation,...
10) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books Inc
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Narrated by George Guidall. The story of a young boy who writes to his favorite author about the trials and hardships he must face when his parents divorce.
13) Little Hobo
Author
Publisher
Ozark Publishing
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Clete's father is killed in an automobile accident and his mother drinks and beats him, so he runs away from home.
14) Ballet for Drina
Author
Publisher
Apple Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1957
Language
English
Description
Ever since Drina's parents died, she's lived with her grandparents. The only problem is that her grandparents don't want her to take ballet lessons. And they won't explain why!
17) CookCamp
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling Book
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1944 a little boy is sent to stay with his grandmother. Grandma cooks for nine men who are building a road from Minnesota to Canada.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Juniper
Pub. Date
c1939
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jessie and her best friends in boarding school have always loved their teacher, Miss Muller who is half Irish and half German. But then war breaks out and the students begin to think differently
20) Yearling
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1967
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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