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Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
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"The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan...
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn't been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years-not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny-the high school wrestling star and Kirsten's older brother. No one knows what to believe-not even those closest to Johnny-but the event...
5) Ginger Pye
Author
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Author
Publication Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abaguchie mania! Caroline Malloy thrills when Wally Hatford tells her that a strange animal called the abaguchie was spotted in their area. Wally warns Caroline not to search alone, but she is bent on finding the abaguchie. Wally and his brothers try to foil the plan. Caroline and her sisters plan to outfox them once and for all.
Author
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When he finds a naked--and very much dead--earl tied to his missing sister's bed, Captain Maximus Harcourt turns to Miss Ivory Moore, who is known throughout London for smoothing over scandals, for help and is drawn to this fearless woman who takes charge of the situation--and his heart.
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
9) Rats!
Author
Publication Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason and Edward Fraser return in this sequel to No Dogs Allowed.
10) Edwin and Emily
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Publication Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Edwin decides that his younger sister Emily is a pest, but sometimes she's a nice pest.
11) Life with Max
Author
Publisher
Steck-Vaughn
Publication Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
A big sister has trouble coping with her young brother.
12) As ever, Gordy
Author
Publication Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become.
Author
Publication Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.
16) Do like Kyla
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Publication Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.
19) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Crown
Publication Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters have an argument about how to cook an artichoke, but they cannot stay mad at each other for long--expecially when the artichoke keeps turning up in the most surprising places.
20) The secret box
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Publication Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In five interrelated stories, friends Taylor and Lindsey and their older brothers confront the uncertainty of adolescence as secrets change their outlooks and redefine their relationships.
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