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English
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A “sharply funny and sobering . . . portrait of a family in financial free fall” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Young Jane Young (People).
With The Hole We’re In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter,...
With The Hole We’re In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
3) Persuasion
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Suspense, humor and plenty of heart . . . spooky and satisfying.”—People
Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find...
Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find...
7) Twisted
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir in which Alyse Myers recalls her relationship with her mother, discussing her childhood perceptions of her parents' rocky marriage, the split that came when she declared she wanted more from life than her mother had, and the understanding that came twelve years after her mom's death when Alyse finally opened a box of letters and photographs her mother treasured.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 342 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Gallaghers. Mom went AWOL years ago. Dad stayed home with the six children only to hit the bottle, and sometimes the kids. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise "Lip" and the actively gay, but very private, Ian.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
217 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Libby Aimes escapes her prison-like home by using a strange concoction of her father's, then tries to make her way to the boarding school of her dreams, aided by various people and animals.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cass's only friends are her dead sister and the school ghosts who feed her gossip that she uses to make students face up to their bad behavior, but when a popular boy asks for her help, she begins to reach out to the living again.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores Billy Gilley's 1984 murders of his parents and younger sister and draws from interviews with Billy, his older sister, family, friends, and professionals as well as the author's personal experiences to examine the effects of physical and verbal abuse on children.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (506 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Southern soccer mom with three kids sees her life come crashing down when she finds out that her dentist husband has impregnated his hygienist. Meanwhile, her 17-year-old cheerleader daughter is also pregnant by the captain of the football team and intends on keeping the baby.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vicki Miller (Marcia Gay Harden) is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby (Taylor Handley) shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in. From that point on, Vicki is bound to Bobby. This story tells the tale of two people trying to find themselves and make their way...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now Nina is sixteen. And she'll do anything for the boy she loves, just to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are. She's been volunteering at a high-kill animal shelter where...
19) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
3-disc collector's ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (496 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
First Reba Hart had to get used to the fact that her husband of twenty years left her to marry his young dental assistant. Now she has to face the fact that her youngest daughter wants to go live with her ex-husband and his new wife. Hurt and angry, Reba struggles to accept her daughter's decision. But when her son also starts spending more time at his father's house, Reba fears she's losing her whole family. Although with her ex-husband's new wife...
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