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Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.
22) The English son
Author
Series
Amish millionaire volume part 1
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the opening of a six-part serial novel, businessman Joel Byler has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father is done bailing out his spoiled son. Will Joel learn he must pay for his own mistakes -- and at what cost?
23) The compound
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone. A young woman who sacrificed her dreams. How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way? At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life--and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Jasmine Houston, a widow with a young son, agrees to harbor former slaves at her horse farm outside of Lowell, even though her father, a plantation owner, supports slavery. When a boardinghouse keeper unwittingly becomes involved with a traveling peddler who sells something infinitely more valuable than shoes, Jasmine is devastated to discover that her son and the former slaves have been kidnapped. Jasmine's determination to free them threatens to...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers...
27) Open season
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
oe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden--especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Casey Ellis has arrived at a lonely place in her life. Her mother remains in a comatose state several years after a terrible accident - and now her father has died. Although Casey never met him, she held an oblique hope that someday her father might acknowledge her. She watched from afar as the illustrious Dr. Cornelius Unger became a celebrated psychologist and teacher. Through it all, she clung to the illusive dream that someday he might take notice...
29) A better man
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
32) Little Dorrit
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 47
Publisher
Dent
Pub. Date
1908
Language
English
Description
Little Dorrit is a poignant novel by Charles Dickens that paints a vivid portrait of Victorian England while delving into themes of poverty, social class, and the struggle for personal freedom. At the heart of the story is Amy Dorrit, affectionately known as Little Dorrit, a gentle and selfless young woman who grows up in the Marshalsea debtor s prison alongside her father. As the narrative unfolds, readers are introduced to a cast of characters whose...
33) Passing by
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yael peeks out from her balcony and sees the many things passing in the street below.
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
With lively prose, unforgettable characters, and a touch of mischievous wit, Fern Michaels creates vivid reading experiences in all of her acclaimed USA Today and New York Times bestselling novels. Now, she inspires and entertains with a touching tale of the transforming power of love -- and a woman whose broken heart finds more room for the simple pleasures of family and home, and for discovering true love in the last place she expected. Darby Lane...
Author
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Reuben Land's older brother Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family, the town is divided between those who see him as a hero and those who see him as a cold-blooded murderer. On the morning of the trial, Davy escapes and his family sets out in search of him. Set in the 1960s.
37) Only the Brave
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany.
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household,...
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household,...
38) The big field
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Two siblings provide instructions for how to surprise one's dad, including surprises you can make, do, or find--and how to plan a Special Day surprise party for him"-- Provided by publisher.
40) The ultimatum
Author
Series
Guardian volume 1
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will--Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
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