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41) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six months ago, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant-- was he drunk when it happened? Instead of following the rest of the refugees after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself. When...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Stripped of her image and identity after a devastating car accident and the resulting reconstructive surgery, Charlotte Swenson, a jaded model, struggles to rebuild her life in a culture obsessed with surface appearance.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant Booker-nominated novel from one of our finest authors: How to Be Both is a daring, inventive tale that intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl. How can one be both--near and far, past and present, male and female? In Ali Smith's new novel, two extraordinary characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter...
46) Family history
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Enjoying her loving family and her work as an art restorer, Rachel Jensen finds her world unraveling after a terrible accident that leads to Rachel's discovery that her teenage daughter is threatening to destroy them all.
Author
Series
Mason novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life. Eighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who visits the cemetery to escape the other kids at school. One afternoon she joins Arthur--a gesture...
Author
Series
Voice volume 07
Publisher
Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2006
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is...
50) Cold Springs
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A decade after the suicide of his troubled daughter, Chadwick takes a job at Cold Springs Academy, a school for wayward teens, where he is asked to kidnap the girl who witnessed his daughter's death and uncovers dark secrets about the long-ago tragedy.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Working in the royal library as a translator, Nepenthe becomes obsessed with a strange book, given to her by a young mage during the coronation of the new Queen of Raine, and begins to discover her destiny.
Author
Series
How to build a girl volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged ... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she...
58) Stork
Author
Series
Stork trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls."
60) The cold nowhere
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 6
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he finds the daughter of a woman he failed to protect from a violent husband years ago hiding out in his lakeside cottage, Duluth PD Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is driven by guilt and duty to help her.
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