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21) The fox's walk
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book. "[An] engaging and keenly particular story of a watchful little girl caught at a fateful historical crossroads." -The Seattle Times
During the First World War, ten-year-old Alice Moore is left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely country house in County Waterford. Living in a rigid, old-fashioned household where propriety is all, Alice is forced to piece together her world-a world on the...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn't help but wonder--would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a rancorous split from New York's upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy's middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to...
23) Billy Madison
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The womanizing, do-nothing scion of a rich family must pass through grades 1 to 12 all over again to inherit the family fortune.
Author
Series
Privilege novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life--all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enrolled as a junior at the exclusive Atherton-Pryce boarding school just outside of D.C., Ariana sleeps in Frette sheets, flirts with the captain of the crew team, and gossips with the most beautiful girls on campus. She killed...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
27) The pickup
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Julie is from an affluent white family and is always searching for new ideas and adventures. When her car breaks down in a South African city she is immediately drawn to Abdu the mechanic who comes to her aid. He has left his home and family in the north to find work in the new South Africa. As their relationship develops into passionate love, they must both confront the prejudices of their past and the uncertainties of the future. The Pickup is the...
Author
Series
Gossip Girl novels. Original series volume 12
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, and Vanessa went off to live their lives. Now they're coming home for the holidays. A lot can change in a few months . . . but some things never do. It finally happened: we went to college. We started over. No one knows who we've coveted, what we scored on the SATs, where our parents live, or when we became debaucherous. We've learned new things, made new friends, and maybe even met the loves of our lives. We've changed....
29) 24-Karat kids
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Meet Dr. Shelley Green — newly minted pediatrician. After graduating medical school at the top of her class, Shelley is hired by Madison Pediatrics, the Upper East Side's most exclusive practice. Suddenly this self-described 'schlumpy girl from Jackson Heights' is thrown into the world of the rich, famous, and very neurotic. Her life is about to change in a big way.
Hyper-parenting has reached epidemic proportions -- and Madison Pediatrics is its...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exiled to an equestrienne boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her mysterious role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.
32) Priceless
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With her father in jail and her partying pals suddenly scarce, Charlotte escapes Manhattan and heads to the one place she doesn't think anyone will come looking: New Orleans. But she's being following by an angry stalker who wants nothing more than to destroy her for her father's crimes. With Mardi Gras around the corner, the masquerade has only just begun...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Newly wealthy Lauren Page decides to infiltrate and destroy the Ashleys, the group of girls who rule the seventh grade of their fancy Pacific Heights preparatory school, in revenge for their former treatment of her.
34) Holiday wishes
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after a visit to the mall with Santa Claus. Each girl wakes up as the other, with Britney in the orphanage and Rachel at Britney's family's mansion. With the magical intervention of a professional party planner Rachel teaches Britney's unloving family the true meaning of Christmas, and Britney learns that giving is better than getting.
36) Billionaire boy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
38) The toy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A millionaire's son visits his father once a year and gets to pick out anything he wants from the department store. He picks out the janitor.
Author
Series
A day to remember volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
40) Cabin boy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A spoiled rich kid's plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire when he gets lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors that teach him lessons in life.
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