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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past...
3) The guardian
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Series
Language
English
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After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
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English
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Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.
They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in
...7) The convent
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mother Superior Maria Ines finds a baby nestled in a suitcase on the doorstep of her convent where six women are devoted to God, solitude, and silence, but taking the baby in opens the door for Maria's romantic past to come back to haunt her.
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Language
English
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How far will a mother go to save her child?
Ten-years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day, Ruby reads a magazine article about...
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods touches readers' hearts with this all-time favorite winter tale of love and family ... Once Sharon Adams had her future all planned -- only to see it snatched away in a heartbeat, leaving her dreams in the dust. And then a fateful snowy night found two strangers at her door. The first was Cord Branson, an intriguing and irresistible stranger. And the second was a baby, the one she'd always dreamed, and...
10) Silas Marner
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Language
English
Description
"A man becomes a recluse when he's accused of a crime he did not commit Silas Marner is a skilled weaver working long hours in London for a Calvinist sect that does not appreciate him. When the congregation's funds are stolen, Silas is framed for the theft and excommunicated. Presumed guilty, abandoned by the love of his life, evicted from his modest home, and humiliated by the men he called his brothers, Silas wanders north to a small village in...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
12) Summer's Child
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Language
English
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Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea, an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend...
13) Operation Bunny
Author
Series
Wings and Co volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch and get to the bottom of Operation Bunny"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A breathtaking epic fantasy of love, war, rebirth, and magical destiny based on the haunting folklore of England, Ireland, and Scotland unfolds across a vivid landscape of wonder and peril In The Ill-Made Mute, a wretched, nameless mute awakens without a memory in a lofty tower upon whose battlements winged horses and flying ships make landfall. The amnesiac longs to escape and roam the wild landscape in search of a past, a name, and a destiny. But...
15) Summer longing
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community. The appearance...
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Language
English
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Linda Broday's heroes step right out of her books and into your heart. -- JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author He'll do whatever it takes To keep them safe Duel McClain has lost everything he's ever loved: his wife, his son, his sense of self. But when a strange twist of fate--and a poker game he'll never forget--leaves an innocent little girl in his care, Duel vows to defend his new family to his very last breath. If only he knew a single...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant amalgam of Tom Jones, Moll Flanders,and Fanny Hill, Erica Jong's Fanny is a wonderfully inventive, deliciously bawdy picaresque novel featuring an irrepressible heroine you won't soon forget In eighteenth-century England, life begins somewhat ignobly for Fanny Hackabout-Jones. Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of Lord and Lady Bellars's grand Wiltshire manor, she contemplates the literary life as she grows to ripe young womanhood...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""Fantasy at its most sublime."--Erin Morgenstern, NYT bestselling author of The Night Circus A penetrating tale of magic, faith and pride... The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival...and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future...
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