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861) Swim that rock
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his dad goes missing in a fishing-boat accident, fourteen-year-old Jake refuses to think he may have lost his father forever. But suddenly, nothing seems certain in Jake's future, and now his family's diner may be repossessed by loan sharks. In Narragansett Bay, scrabbling out a living as a quahogger isn't easy, but with the help of some local clammers, Jake is determined to work hard and earn enough money to ensure his family's security and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
863) The voices
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
As a child, Billy Saint finds guidance from the landscape of the Australian bush that surrounds him, unaware that his ever-increasing involvement with the untamed land is drawing him into something terrifying and powerful beyond his control.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The priceless ruby necklace secretly given to Ophelia Oatman by her dying mother isn't easily given away--nor is her virginity. But Ophelia must choose between them. The necklace becomes both Ophelia's ticket to freedom and shackles of shame. Fate, family legacy, hair color, the shape of her skull, sex, survival, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the tension between Mormons and Gentiles in the Utah Territory converge to shape her...
867) University Boulevard
Author
Publisher
Clock Tower Press
Pub. Date
�2003
Language
English
Description
It's 1967. The winds of change are blowing ... and about to obliterate life for Chipper DeHart as he knows it. Once a John Wayne world of right and wrong, everything's turned upside down in a tornado of social change. Coming off their championship season in high school golf, the ever-conflicted Chipper and wheeler-dealer Peachy decide to endure possible hazing as they pledge Sigma Zeta Chi, Guru Smokey Ray, along with the first ever "Greek" Kickapoo...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Days after graduation, Betsab©Øe Ruiz's life in New York is turning out to be nothing less than cinematic. Although her first job at a white-shoe, Wall Street investment bank is the opportunity of a lifetime, she is not prepared for the magnitude of wealth swirling about her, the long hours and close quarters that infuse her professional relationships with intimacy, nor an unexpected attraction to her boss. And like all great films, Betsab©Øe's...
871) Every colour of you
Author
Publisher
Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What happens when someone who lives every day to the full meets someone who can only see reasons to stop living? We had a story - short, but not a simple one. I couldn't stay here and explain it all to you. If you really want to know, you'll have to take time out of your day. You'll have to read it... Zoe's life is full of colour. A fan of impromptu yoga, inspirational quotes and experimenting with hair dye, she's on a mission to make the most of...
872) Push: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009, �1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
873) The Barrowfields
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son's...
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Beatrice Miller copes with the ups and downs of friendships, puberty, and identity, guided by the wisdom and love of her beloved Mamaw and mom, the summer before seventh grade.--
876) Jasmine and Maddie
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
To grieving Jasmine, Maddie's a rich kid with no problems. To lonely Maddie, Jasmine is all cavalier cool in their tame Connecticut town. True friends they are not. Yet each hopes the other might save her. Can Maddie give Jasmine what she needs? Could Jasmine rescue Maddie from the outskirts of the crowd? When Jasmine steals Maddie's heirloom ring, just how far will she go to keep it? In alternating chapters, Maddie and Jasmine take turns weaving...
878) The lake effect
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
Author
Series
A second chances novel volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Maxwell has had a life filled with pain. Her mother died too young, her father is an abusive alcoholic, and she's a misfit everywhere she goes. After being shuttled between various foster homes, Cass struggles to find her identity and finds herself caught up with Scott Jones (aka "Sky") and his group of friends who start a Jesus commune in California. But before long, the group is more interested in pot and sex than they are spiritual growth....
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