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Series
I survived volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
3) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but...
Author
Series
I survived volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It was a battle that would change the course of World War II ... Eleven-year-old Paul's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all, but the soldier needs Paul's help. This...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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Language
English
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"The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism." --Goodreads.com.
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Language
English
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Description
"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. But when a grave mistake...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?"--
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. When a charming writer...
12) Love comes home
Author
Series
Rosey Corner novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War II is finally over and the people of Rosey Corner are busy welcoming the boys home. The Merritt sisters in particular are looking toward the future as they learn to hold their plans with a loose hand, trusting that God will guide and strengthen them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The Ladies of the Lake, as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy,...
16) Sustaining faith
Author
Series
When hope calls volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With more children on their way from England who need caring homes, Lillian and Grace Walsh must use every ounce of gumption to keep their mission alive. But when startling information about the past surfaces and a new arrival comes via suspicious circumstances, they'll have to decided what is worth fighting for and what is better left in God's hands"--
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 20
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Julia and Meredith's friend Tasha is accued of steaing a set of handbells from the Savannah Historical Museum, Julia and Meredith investigate. Meanwhile, Julia has taken on too many Christmas projects and is feeling stretched thin.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to keep her older brother from being drafted in the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Reenie strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mr. Marsworth, an elderly shut-in, who helps her in her mission"--
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