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3) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
4) The hours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
5) Dark fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, atmospheric mystery about 1951 Hollywood...this is a winner." -David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author
In June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support her friend Max Jeffries who has found himself blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in Washington rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies. Edna first met Max when he worked on the 1927 Broadway production of Show Boat, and now he's brought his...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in a Southern, city-swallowed town, The Garden Angel tells the story of two women and their unlikey friendship. Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric, nostalgic about her family's once glorious past. She has her hands full warding off potential buyers from the dilapidated homestead she is determined to keep. Though the neighborhood has changed, even grown shabby, Father Bob's Home for Retarded Men across the street has become a sort of extended...
Author
Language
English
Description
Published in the UK as Caedmon's Song, this is a gripping standalone thriller from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.
When she awakens in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly, painfully, details reveal themselves-dreams of two figures, one white and one black,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous." --
11) Library mouse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This #1 New York Times bestselling prequel to Sex and the City is now a CW TV series! The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of Carrie Bradshaw, one of the most iconic characters of New York City and our generation. Before Sex and the City, Carrie was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable....
14) Tropic of cancer
Author
Language
English
Description
Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The scene is a small town in Maine in the 1950s. Louisa Fisher, called "Fish" by her friends, yearns for true love. She also wants to be a writer, hoping for a bestseller before she is twenty. Unnerved by the boys at school with their leering question "What Do Cowboys Like?", Fish is afraid to show ignorance and makes up for it with fanciful flights of prose in the novel she is secretly penning.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company--and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he's determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life.
18) My Hero
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
One for the keeper shelf! Enjoy again this charming classic romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Would-be romance writer Bailey York was a woman who'd already failed twice at love. As far as she was concerned, men were wonderful to read-and to write-about, but that was as close as she wanted to get. Which was probably why she had such difficulty creating a hero.
She needed a real-life model, she finally decided....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An inspirational short novel for young readers about the power of writing by Newbery Medal-winning author Patricia MacLachlan. Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class -- bringing magical words and a whole new way of seeing and understanding. From beloved author Patricia MacLachlan comes an honest, inspiring story about what is real and what is unreal, and...
20) Dom Casmurro
Author
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bentinho Santiago, cosseted only child of a rich widow, lives next door to Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government official. As childhood friendship turns to adolescent love, an obstacle to the union exists in the form of a vow made by Bentinho's mother before his birth: her son is to be a priest. The lovers' situation appears hopeless, but resourceful Capitu is not easily discouraged. De Assis weaves a powerful and ultimately tragic story of love...
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