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1) The Locket
Author
Series
Locket volume 1
Language
English
Description
Long-ago unresolved love is superimposed on a contemporary couple's romantic difficulties in this romance/mystery. As the story switches from nursing home to courtroom, the message to take love when you find it is driven home.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
3) The carousel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow are a modern-day American couple; both work in the medical field, and they marry just before Faye begins medical school. This is the story of their often star-crossed relationship.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, all Marcia can think about is what nail polish to use, how to lose weight, and whether Alex will ask her to the dance, but after giving makeovers in a nursing home for a school project, she begins to appreciate the value of inner beauty.
7) Old friends
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "touching, funny and inspiring" true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times). Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer is almost gone, and third-grader Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, are spending their time working on a play for the local public library, and visiting Abigail Flynn at the Evergreen Nursing Home.
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel takes a job as an "auxiliary nurse" at Paradise Lodge, a home for the elderly, and learns that her job entails helping the patients (frequently) to the bathroom. What begins as a way to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly becomes the education of a lifetime as Lizzy wades through the day-to-day humdrum and drama of this ramshackle refuge for...
13) Sunshine Home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he and his parents visit his grandmother in the nursing home where she is recovering from a broken hip, everyone pretends to be happy until Tim helps them express their true feelings.
14) Grace sees red
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When one of the elderly residents at an upscale assisted-living facility is found dead under suspicious circumstances and Grace's assistant Frances, seen arguing with the man earlier that day, becomes a person of interest, it's up to Grace to clear her assistant's name and find the real killer"--
Grace Wheaton, curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, and her benefactor, Bennett Marshfield, are discussing how to help her roommates Bruce and Scott...
Author
Publisher
Cook Communications Ministries
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a visit to her grandmother in a nursing home, Katrina is confronted by scary old Agnes and learns that things--and people--are not always what they appear to be.
17) Wrinkles
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Language
English
Description
Admitted to a home for the elderly because he suffers from Alzheimer's disease, Emilio's community life feels like an ordeal. But soon he accepts his new environment and decides to fight to escape from giving in to his awful destiny. Even as his memory flutters, he and new friend Miguel, an overconfident ladies' man, invent creative ways to enliven their daily routines and strike a blow for personal freedom. It all culminates in a foolhardy, madcap,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
When Allan lands in a nursing home, he refuses to celebrate his 100th birthday and instead escapes out a window to embark on a journey that involves a suitcase of cash and a gang of criminals. Flashbacks reveal that Allan played a key role in 20th century history when he was pals with U.S. presidents and Russian tyrants.
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