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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Katarina Bivald talks about her characters like you talk about your best friends. She gives her story absolutely everything she has. -- FREDRIK BACKMAN , #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove From New York Times bestselling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend comes a charming tale of a ramshackle roadside motel: a heartwarming story of love, friendship, community, and the art of living, even when it's already too late....
23) Hotel Paradise
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham becomes obsessed with the story of Mary-Evelyn Devereau--a girl just Emma's age who drowned in Spirit Lake forty years earlier. In the course of her investigation, Emma learns secrets best left untold and must make some grown-up decisions about right and wrong.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
No one writes sassy Southern charm like New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown:
• Join lively characters in quirky small town Texas
• Feisty women trade in their heels for cowboy boots
• Plus a fiery fling in forced proximity to make you melt
Pearl Richland left for the big city as soon as she could and never looked back. Until she lost her job and had to fall back on the only thing left to her name: the motel her great-aunt...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Housemates Hannah, Grace, and Amelia always try to surround themselves with love and hope, as as they help a dear friend cope with illness, they develop a deeper mutual compassion and a true appreciation for the toughness of the human spirit.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
The haunted hotel: When the guests of the Shangri-La Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery.
The invisible island: While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
The jaguar's jewel: Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from...
29) Icefire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A family-run haunted hotel's livelihood is threatened when a bigger haunted hotel opens nearby in this hilarious, spooky story Twelve-year-old Willow Ivan's family has run the Hotel Ivan for four hundred years. Through thick and thin, they've held on tight to their title as the Best Haunted Hotel on Mercer Street. That is, until the Hauntery -- a corporate chain of haunted hotels -- moves in down the street. As the Ivan's business fades, so do their...
32) The Inn Between
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a long car trip, best friends Quinn and Kara explore the strange and creepy goings-on at a remote Nevada inn when Kara's family stops for the night.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old sleuth Emma Graham's investigation into the twenty-year-old case of the disappearance of an infant is furthered by the arrivals of the baby's father and a mysterious drifter who seems to like everyone at Hotel Paradise besides Emma.
35) Rainwater
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1934, Ella Barron struggles to keep her Texas boardinghouse afloat despite the financial hardships her neighbors are facing, which leads her to rent a room to the soft-spoken David Rainwater, who shows Ella and her ten-year-old son the true meaning of trust and compassion.
36) Room to dream
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Eloise loves to take a bath, which is bad news for Mr. Salomone and the elegant people gathering below in the Plaza's Grand Ball Room for the charity event of the season, a Masked Ball.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
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