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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
8) Valentine
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
9) Witch mama
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jenna celebrates her Halloween birthday by trick-or-treating with her younger brother in the neighborhood and going to a party at school where her mother gives her a special surprise.
13) Not my daughter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe)
When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees...
When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees...
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Language
English
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Description
Compulsively readable and stylistically stunning, Black Dog Summer begins with a murder, a farmstead massacre, in the South African bush. Thirty-eight-year-old Sally is but one of the victims. Her life brutally cut short, she narrates from her vantage point in the afterlife and watches as her sister, Adele, her brother-in-law and unrequited love Liam, her niece Bryony, and her teenage daughter, Gigi, begin to make sense of the tragedy. A suspenseful...
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Language
English
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Description
Book editor Pauline becomes increasingly agitated when it appears that her daughter Teresa's husband Maurice is a philanderer, and disturbed that Teresa's love for Maurice--an echo of the self-destructive love Pauline felt for Teresa's father--is blinding her to the truth.
18) Riding lessons
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Series
Language
English
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Description
An unforgettable story of a devastating accident that ends the career of an Olympic contender equestrienne and sets off a chain of events that comes to a crisis point nearly twenty years later.
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.
Now, twenty years...
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Language
English
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Description
Get swept up in this enticing, emotional story of family suspense from New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.
Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer-until her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered.
It's been more than forty years since that August night, but Julie's memories of her sister's death still shape her world. Now someone from her past is raising questions...
20) Shelter me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young mother and widow learns how to deal with her husband's sudden recent death.
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