Catalog Search Results
1) Ethan Frome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Upon encountering the limping Ethan Frome, a visitor becomes curious about the striking man's back story. Using extended flashbacks, author Edith Wharton paints a picture of a man who continually sacrifices his aspirations in order to care for the needy people in his life. After abandoning his goal of higher education to assist his ailing parents on their farm, Ethan's return to Starkfield results in a loveless marriage of service to Zeena, an older...
Author
Series
Prairie legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Heartwarming Return to the Legacy of Marty and Clark Davis From the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series... Twenty years have passed since youngest daughter Belinda's story in Love Finds a Home. Marty and Clark's spiritual heritage has been lovingly passed on to their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And now beloved granddaughter Virginia faces the test of her young life. Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood,...
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Jeremiah and Belly head back to cousins Beach to plan their wedding, Conrad comes home to tell Belly he made a mistake when he broke her heart.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pilgrim's Progress is a 1678 Christian allegory written by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Begun while Bunyan served a 12-year jail sentence for his nonconformist preaching, the novel unfolds over two parts, one concerning Christian, and the other his wife Christiana and their sons. Both concern the central characters' ordeals in traveling from the worldly to the sublime, and are filled with allegorical characters with names like Hypocrisy and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
6) Camp Valor
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Wyatt avoids a prison sentence by agreeing to spend three months in a secret government training camp for teenage agents, but when enemies try to root out Camp Valor's secrets, Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice to protect their country.
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
10) Up a road slowly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Medal, 1967
11) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
209 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having fled the Pure Ones, Nyroc longs to fly to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, but before he claims his new destiny, he must travel alone through the barren and desolate landscape of outcasts called The Beyond the Beyond.
12) The hatchling
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nyroc, the son of Kludd and Nyra, is destined to take his dead father's place as leader of the Pure Ones and to wreak vengeance on Soren, but as the light of goodness dawns in his heart, Nyroc begins to doubt all that he as been taught.
13) The shattering
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Soren's sister, Eglantine, disappears, Soren leads a search-and-rescue chaw through the deadly terrain of the Beaks and faces a raging forest fire, determined to overcome the evil Pure Ones and free his sister.
14) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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.
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When each summer begins, Belly leaves her school life behind and escape to Cousins Beach, the place she has spent every summer of her life. Not only does the beach house mean home away from home, but her favorite people are there: Susannah, her mother's best friend, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly has been chasing Conrad for as long as she can remember, and more than anything, she hopes this summer will be different. Despite distractions...
17) Time bomb
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
18) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A great battle is on the horizon, and Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.
19) The Lying Woods
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, a young woman reckons not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom as jealousy and betrayal threaten to accomplish what hardship never could--divide the family for good"--