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61) Small fry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
62) A family mystery
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. +
Language
English
Description
Join Miguel and his dog, Dante, as they solve a family mystery.
63) Strange planet
Author
Publisher
Morrow Gift, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet is an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple, based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name! Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet's inhabitants, including milestones such as: The Emergence Day, Being Gains a Sibling, the Being Family Attains a Beast... With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in...
65) The dark enquiry
Author
Series
Lady Julia Grey volume 5
Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane's private enquiry business. Among the more unlikely clients: Julia's very proper brother, Lord Bellmont, who swears Brisbane to secrecy about his case. Not about to...
67) Emily's house
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers guide includes historical notes, questions for discussion, and recommended books for further reading.
"Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn't stayed in one place for long since her family fled the potato famine a decade ago. When Maggie accepts a temporary position at the illustrious...
68) An Amish wedding
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captures the tradition of an Amish wedding as a young couple, Anna and Samuel, with the help of their family and friends, prepare for the special event and the celebrations that follow.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is...
71) The chaperone
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the twentieth century and her own purpose in life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
col. illus. 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A counting rhyme with illustrations of rabbits in Native American costume, depicting traditional customs such as rain dances, hunting, and smoke signals. Includes a glossary with additional information
75) The long winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
79) Deacon King Kong
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...