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7) Faith Fox
Author
Language
English
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Description
A novel from the acclaimed author of Old Filth.
The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.
Faith's mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child alone; and her unconventional grandmother refuses to acknowledge the child whose birth took away the daughter she loved. And so a motley crew of family and friends converges to see that Faith...
Author
Series
Grandpa Spanielson's chicken pox stories volume story 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Barney gets chicken pox, Grandpa tells him a funny story to keep his mind off his itching.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When summer comes, Emily is looking forward to spending more time with Grandfather. Ever since Grandma Ellen's death, Emily has felt especially close to him. He's never too busy to listen to her, and he always understands her feelings. But Emily's summer is unexpectedly ruined when Grandfather returns from a vacation with a new wife. Her name is Marjorie, and Emily hates her. There's no way Marjorie can replace Grandma Ellen, and she's certain to...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Weaves two tales--one in which Pigeon, a young man, falls in love with Anielica and builds a house for her family before fighting for the resistance during World War II--and another in which Pigeon's granddauther, Beata, lives in a 1990s Kraków without hope until she uncovers family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.
Author
Series
Prayer jars volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
What would happen if you found out someone has been impersonating you? Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the impostor. Secrets and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
16) Yasmin the vet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Yasmin discovers an injured cat she immediately slips into the role of vet to care for the animal with the assistance of her grandmother, while her grandfather tries to contact the owner.
17) Love story
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family--the Baxters. Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history...
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Series
Fablehaven volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
19) Walk two moons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a long car trip from Ohio to Idaho, 13-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle regales her grandparents with a story about her friend Phoebe, who receives a message from a potential lunatic and must cope with the disappearance of her mother. Beneath Phoebe's story is Sal's own--and her seach for her own mother who left for Idaho one sunny morning and never returned. (CHARGER NOT INCLUDED) Run time: 5:28:00.
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