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21) Lucky strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
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English
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"First published serially in 1840 -- 41 in Dickens' own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock , and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and generosity, love and loyalty -- all with a pervading veneer of sentimentality that greatly appealed to Victorian readers. As the story opens up, Nell...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
24) Eve Green
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Eve Green, pregnant with her first child, looks back on the year her mother committed suicide and she was sent to live with her grandparents in Wales, and recalls her involvement in trying to unravel the mystery of her parents, and her attempts to shelter a friend suspected in the disappearance of a local girl.
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When four-year-old William vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, "The lights took him," and then never speaks again. With these words, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming forward would ruin her family and her husband's political career. As Lynn and her best friend Roxy revisit the secrets of her long-buried past to find clues that will lead to William,...
26) Sweet dream baby
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
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Description
Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. Delia's secrets go beyond what Travis can understand, but he believes that he alone can save her--a belief that not only forces him...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Bockoven is magic." -- New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter A fabulous repackaging of this deeply emotional novel from the bestselling author of Beach House and Another Summer, Georgia Bockoven's Things Remembered is a heartrending tale of family and the healing power of love. This intensely moving story follows a young woman's difficult homecoming to Northern California where, despite painful memories of her past, she must make peace...
29) As good as gone
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Language
English
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Description
"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
She needs a mother One little girl could give him a second chance at love. Jack Prinz barely knows how to be a grandfather, much less raise a child by himself. But he has the perfect solution--marry his childhood friend to provide his orphaned granddaughter with the mother figure she needs. Now he has to convince Grace Partridge to accept his loveless proposal. If only sticking to his plan were that simple From Harlequin Love Inspired: Uplifting stories...
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
May she grow into all her gifts. Rachel never understood her grandfather's blessing, but as she begins her senior year in high school, she's not thinking of it much. She's more worried about getting into college, and trying not to embarrass herself in front of Chris, a friend who might be turning something into more. Her plans are challenged by meeting Yonatan, a mysterious stranger still reeling from his own losses. Yonatan says Rachel has a calling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Adair legacy concludes with a shocking revelation...;
Kidnapped and held captive for weeks, Shelby O'Hara is grateful to be rescued by handsome secret service agent Daniel Henderson. But the rebellious beauty balks at his 24/7 protection until she learns the shocking secret of why she was abducted: she's the granddaughter of the former U.S. vice president, a woman with lethal opponents in a deadly political game.
To elude those enemies,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel. Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for...
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Distance makes no difference to love ... Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled. But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean are exposed, hidden love affairs come to light, and, as...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Readers will be delighted." -- Publishers Weekly starred review on One More for Christmas From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Christmas Sisters and A Wedding in December comes this sparkling tale of Christmas redemption... For sisters Samantha and Ella Mitchell, Christmas is their most precious time of the year. But this year, they'll be buying presents for the most unexpected guest of all -- their mother. It's been five years since they...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert.
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge.
2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Through an heirloom charm bracelet three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives. Lolly, still lives in the family cabin on Lost Land Lake where her mother gave her the charm bracelet that would become Lolly's talisman and connection to family past and Lolly hopes the present, but her daughter, Arden, and granddaughter, Lauren, haven't visited...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. "Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to...
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