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2) Firegirl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This poignant novel about a boy's friendship with a burn victim is perfect for fans of R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
From the moment Jessica arrives, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They learn that Jessica has been in a fire and was badly burned, and will be attending St. Catherine's will receiving medical treatments. Despite her appearance and the fear she evokes in him and most of the class, Tom slowly develops a...
3) Sandcastles
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, John, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, John has returned to the family. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor herself--and a passion that may have been interrupted but that...
4) The saint
Author
Series
The Original Sinners volume 5
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eleanor is determined to break from her Catholic upbringing, but when her life is saved by a priest she offers him complete obedience and enters into a world of desire as he reveals his deepest secrets to her.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Series
Red Blazer Girls volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.
10) Small-town girl
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Colleen's relationship with her best friend, her first love, her Catholic education, and her budding literary talent are all vital parts of her life growing up in a small Massachusetts town in the 1960s.
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