Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
3) The bookshop
Author
Language
English
Description
When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.
4) The choir
Author
Language
English
Description
A financial crisis within the church creates a rift within the community when no one can agree whether the boy's choir should be sacrificed in order to save money.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ian Rutledge returns to his job at Scotland Yard after five years on the battlefield, keeping secret the fact that he is still suffering from shell shock, and almost immediately is sent to investigate the case of a murdered military officer in which the chief suspect is a much-decorated war hero.
6) Mistress
Author
Language
English
Description
A former English school mistress masquerades as the mistress of an infamous Earl in order to stop a blackmailer.
7) Decider
Author
Language
English
Description
Architect Lee Morris becomes involved with the Stratton Park racecource and becomes a major player in a dangerous game.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude, having enlisted the help of shop owner Mr. Balthasar, search for Minnie's uncle Alf's donkey and cart, which disappeared after the man was murdered and is believed to hold a dazzling golden box, which Mr. Balthasar warns may contain evil.
10) Come to grief
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sid Halley, jockey turned investigator, is despised after he uncovers evidence that puts a beloved sports hero on trial.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack Rosenblum escapes Berlin with his wife and daughter in the outset of World War II and relocates the family to London, but when Jack is refused membership at all the golf clubs he makes a drastic decision to bring his family to a thatch-roofed cottage in Dorset and begins to spend all of their savings to build his own golf course.
13) After effects
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a case of medical malpractice that looks a bit too much like foul play Muriel Ethel Galloway passed away at home, twitching and grasping at objects only she could see. Her family mourns, sad but unsurprised that an old woman suffering from heart disease should die suddenly. But when Mrs. Galloway's son receives an anonymous call alerting him that...
14) Shirley
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An 1849 novel set in early nineteenth-century England, which contrasts the situations of two women, the shy, restricted Caroline Helstone, who stands as a symbol of the plight of single women, and Shirley Keeldar, an heiress whose financial independence frees her from convention.
15) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violent is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
18) Something blue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
20) The look
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request