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Language
English
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From the bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed tale of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl, the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl, growing up in golden age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years--not since he was a teenager, when...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
3-disc collector's ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (484 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It takes a lot of heart to keep a family like this one together. Amid Brock and Barbra Jean's marital troubles, Cheyenne's personal struggles, Van's career crisis and Kyra's growing pains, Reba somehow manages to keep the whole family functioning at a level just above dysfunctional.
409) Ripple
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
323 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When their too-adult lives lead them down self-destructive paths, these broken teens find a way to heal. An honest portrayal of the urges that drive us and finding the strength to overcome them, Ripple is a stunning debut from a powerful new voice.
411) Lock & Mori
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In modern-day London, sixteen-year-old Miss James "Mori" Moriarty is looking for an escape from her recent past and spiraling home life when she takes classmate Sherlock Holmes up on his challenge to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 159 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to discover the truth about his family, the author uses DNA testing and interviews to learn the real story behind his paternity and that of his eight brothers and sisters. What the DNA reveals, and how the author and siblings handle it, serves as a lesson to anyone undertaking ancestry research"--
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
414) Dogtooth
Publisher
Verve Pictures [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
"Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience,...
415) Liar, liar
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (2 hr., 17 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
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