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Author
Language
English
Description
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family -- their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog -- is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and...
2) Freewill
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.
3) Loser/queen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school nonentity Cammy Hall lives with her grandparents and has one friend--Gerdi, the Danish foreign exchange student--but when someone starts sending her mysterious text messages with instructions that make her more noticeable, and even popular, she must decide what kind of life she wants to lead.
4) La maravilla
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old half-Indian, half-Mexican boy struggles to find his place in the world in a novel set in the desert outside of Phoenix in 1958.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
7) Set on you
Author
Series
Influencers volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym--her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Author
Series
Lily Wong series volume 2
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lily Wong -- a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja -- has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily...
10) El hilo azul
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Todas las familias guardan secretos, incluso las que parecen perfectas. Los Whitshank no son una excepción a esa regla, pero ¿quiénes son realmente los Whitshank? Pues una familia de clase media americana afincada en Baltimore desde 1920. A simple vista, parecen un clan unido por el afecto y la solidaridad. Sin embargo, pronto descubriremos que en el retrato que hacen de sí mismos solo aparece una parte de la fotografía. ...
11) Call me Iggy
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Crushing on a girl at school who doesn't know he exists, Ohio-born Colombian American teen Iggy finds his life unraveling when his grandfather's ghost decides to meddle in his love life, setting him off on a journey of self-discovery.
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