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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
10) American sniper
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.
11) Zorrie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives passes away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cat into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When...
Author
Series
Antique shop mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The seaside town is getting in tune for Harvest Quest, their annual economy boosting scavenger hunt. A fire breaks out at the Oceanview Hotel and arson is suspected. Soon the event hits another harsh cord. This time among the historical society ladies about a purported winner, who claims that an ornate table is actually the antique piano on his scavenger hunt checklist. Soon it is found that this puzzling piano plays a key part in a local resident's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Annies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After her treasured childhood doll, Sophie, is sold out from under her to "Mean" Minerva Dougherty, Jillian Green is determined to get her precious porcelain doll back. The quest leads her to Minerva's home, the ominous Hedgerfield Hall, where she discovers the dead body of Minerva's younger, kinder sister, Rachel, at the bottom of the grand staircase. Now Jillian wonders if the doll's value is more than just sentimental.
Author
Series
Scottish Bakehouse mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As Bread on Arrival’s head baker, Laura Donovan is used to scoring touchdowns in the kitchen, especially when she teams up with her best friends and business partners, Molly Ferris and Carol MacCallan. However, when it comes to parenting, unmarried Laura is a true rookie. While her brother and his wife are out of the country, Laura has agreed to host her teenage nephew, Henry, an up-and-coming football star now playing for the Loch Mallaig...
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