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Clementine volume 7
Language
English
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Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.
3) Unsheltered
Author
Language
English
Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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Series
Language
English
Description
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many...
6) Blue Ethel
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ethel the cat is surprised when, in the course of her usual day, she unexpectedly turns blue"--
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.
11) Empty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
12) Little Tree
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Little Tree is very happy in the forest, where he is surrounded by other little trees and his leaves keep him cool in the heat of summer, but when autumn comes and the other trees drop their leaves, Little Tree cannot be pursuaded to let his go, even after they wither and turn brown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Little Seed and Little Fox are facing changes and brand new circumstances and they don't like it one bit. Through this unlikely friendship, children will discover that no matter how new or fearful their circumstances, God is always with them"--
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Language
English
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Marybell Lyman is notorious for two things. Her look. The wicked hairstyle, multiple piercings and practiced sneer that says "Stay back -- I bite." Her voice. The syrupy lilt that's her bread and butter at Call Girls, the prim little town's flourishing phone-sex business. Hunky handyman Taggart Hawthorn is mesmerized by the contradiction: such sweet tones inside such a spiky shell! He wants to know more about mysterious Marybell, to hear more of her...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
George is a regular kid having a bad day. He woke up sleepy, skipped breakfast, and then nearly missed his bus. But when Joy, the bus driver puts on the brakes and invites him on board, his attitude starts to change. Joy helps George understand that he has the power to choose his attitude. If he believes in himself, has a positive vision for the future, and fuels his ride with positive energy, he'll find the strength to overcome any challenge...
Author
Series
Life in Icicle Falls volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In this final installment in her treasured Icicle Falls series, three women resolve to see the beauty in some of the more difficult people and things in their lives, especially during this Christmas season.
20) Junonia
Author
Language
English
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The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they always are.