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81) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
82) The quiet people
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living. So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying...
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 3
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
85) Fire with fire
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
87) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda applies her previously untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
89) Big Bunny
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A parent and child share the telling of a story about a giant bunny who eats carrots--and maybe trucks and bridges (according to the child).
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
Description
"James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this story about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson can't stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in her children's lives. Julia resents teachers like Isobel, who effortlessly...
94) Forever or a day
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The narrator muses on the nature and trickiness of time, and how too often it passes far too quickly, robbing this parent of the minutes and hours spent with their child.
95) Finding my voice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bedtime is near, but from the end of dinner until lights are turned off, it is not really time for sleeping until a child receives a special good night wish.
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A novel told from three alternating perspectives-a former trapper trying to care for his son with muscular dystrophy; a young girl who wishes for her father to be rid of his PTSD from the war; and a wolf fighting for his and his pack's survival. Set in a small Alaskan town, the residents fight for the remote wilds they call home when plans for a building development threatens to upend the peace"--
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