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781) The kid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is Sapphire's latest, a sequel to Push coming 15 years after its publication and one year after Precious, the film based on Push, got Academy Award attention. It is the story of Precious's son, Abdul, opening on the day of his mother's funeral. This book brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire's unforgettable heroine, Precious. It is a story of survival and awakening, and of one young man's remarkable strength....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas--and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. It was unimaginable. When she was eight years old, Lily Decker somehow survived the auto accident that killed her parents and sister, but neither her emotionally distant aunt nor her all-too-attentive uncle could ease her grief. Dancing proves to be Lily's only solace, and eventually she...
783) Disobedience
Author
Language
English
Description
High school senior Henry Shaw discovers through her e-mail that his mother is having an affair. He waits, wondering when the other members of the family are going to find out and how they will react.
784) Grayfox
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
�1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a fight with his father, Zach Hollister leaves home and joins the Pony Express. He is chased by a war party of Indians and then saved by a peaceful tribe. During his stay with the tribe he discovers the meaning of manhood and the importance of family through his faith in God.
785) My own lightning
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Samira Murphy is caring for her widowed grandmother, and trying to get her older brother into recovery for alcohol addiction. With attendance at her dream college on the line, she takes a long shot DNA test to find the support she so desperately needs from a father she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Henry Owen is torn between his unreliable bio-mom and an overly strick aunt and uncle who stepped in to raise him. He takes a DNA test to find the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A 'lusty, funny, heart-breaking' (Carmen Maria Machado) debut about a sex-obsessed young woman seeking out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Lew and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marabout Ahmed, is a highly regarded Koranic teacher who runs a religious school for young boys in the capital city where Ibrahimah is sent to join his cousin Etienne to study for a year--the local custom for many families. Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves swiping pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting green beans with his father, and racing down to the beach after the mosque in search of sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached...
789) My cat Yugoslavia
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A love story set in two countries--Yugoslavia and Finland--in two radically different moments in time, brings together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat"--
790) The last song (C)
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
791) Midnight whispers
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Christie Longchamp's parents die in a fire, she and her brother go to live with her uncle where more trouble begins.
792) Lily Rose: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After a desperate search for her birth mother, fashionista Lily Rose is forced to confront her turbulent past. Love has set the tone for most of Lily Rose's young life in Cumberland Falls, high in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. But her perfect world falls apart when her beloved adopted parents are tragically killed and she is sent to live at Red Rose Farm, in the Bluegrass. Lily starts high school and meets her first love, who introduces the...
794) Apartment: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1996, the unnamed narrator in Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, the narrator offers his spare bedroom - rent-free - to Billy, a handsome, talented classmate from a working-class family in the Midwest, who is attending Columbia on scholarship. As the semester progresses, the narrator's rapport...
796) Poor deer: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined...
797) Bottled up
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.
799) Casebook: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives. And even then he can't stop searching. Miles Adler-Hart starts eavesdropping to find out what his mother is planning for his life. When he learns instead that his parents...
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