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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet Pipher shows most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. Here she offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Author
Series
Frankly In Love volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
349 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When new-girl Cirrus mistakes self-described nerd Sunny Dae as the lead in a rock band, Sunny rolls with it forming a fake band with his friends, but as the lies continue he risks losing both Cirrus and his friends.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidic sect.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Adopted as an infant, Cass has questions about who she is and where she came from that her adoptive parents can't answer, but eighteen years ago, Cass's birth mother wrote her a series of letters that may just hold the answers she is searching for.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where piano teacher and artist, Andrea Wagner, has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. She has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled. Andrea becomes so fixated on finding her birth mother...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Having undergone experimental treatment to remove the memory of a devastating car accident, high school senior Shelby finds herself hallucinating a boy with dark and mysterious eyes who claims they are in love.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Horror and ghosts stories,...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bailey moves to California to live with her father and, perhaps, finally meet an online friend and fellow film buff, but soon finds herself attracted to an annoying co-worker.
53) Patrick's day
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Bks
Pub. Date
19944]
Physical Desc
unp col illus
Language
English
Description
Patrick, always well-behaved because he thought that his town's Saint Patrick's Day parade was in his honor, tries being naughty like any ordinary boy but finds that he does not like it
54) The second story
Author
Series
The Magic Misfits volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Leila and the other Magic Misfits have the opportunity to perform with a famous stage psychic known as Madame Esmeralda, who may hold secrets to Leila's past.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs depict mustang behavior as observed by the author, as well as an account of how the mustang has established itself and adapted to being a wild horse in the American West.
56) Big
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
233 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, seventh-grader Libby sets off a chain of events that brings hope and encouragement to four different individuals across the country who are dealing with bullies, acceptance, homelessness, and grief.
Author
Series
The mirror sisters volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of The Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters made to act, look, and feel truly identical by their perfectionist mother. Alike in every way...with one dark exception. As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be identical: their clothes, their toys, their friends...the number of letters in...
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.