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Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do.
The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same. Struggling to build lives they can be proud...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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"Even a bookish big sister is drawn in by the promise of her imaginative sibling's spectacular hideaway. When two sisters are ushered outside to play, one sits under a tree with a book while the other regales her with descriptions of a cool fort in a tree that grows ever more fantastical in the telling. What will it take to get the older sister to look up?"
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English
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Sisters Mae Wallace and March are two years apart, and worlds away from being anything alike. Mae Wallace is the dependable, older sister, who weighs her words before she speaks, and sees the world as a project to be saved. March, happily overweight and charismatic, has the world on a string. Babies, men, and teachers love March, and she loves them right back. Mae Wallace doesn't so much live in her sister's shadow as be amused by it, and generally...
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Mage's influence volume 2
Publisher
Luminant Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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ix, 289 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Cadence just wants to help Airlie. Instead she's trapped in a double life at the Guild. And with nomad delegations arriving for a royal tour, everything is only growing more complicated. As the threat from both the raiders and the fallen kingdom grows, Cadence and Zeke's charade is stretched to breaking point as they fight for their friends. But how can Cadence keep everyone safe when she's growing less and less sure who she can trust? Separated...
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Carolina girls volume 4
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English
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"Major's charming small town is packed with salt-of-the-earth people readers will embrace, and each sister's journey is beautifully imagined. Readers will eagerly await their next visit to this idyllic community."-Publishers Weekly
This Christmas the Carlyle sisters will rediscover the gift of family
For some families, a Christmas reunion is like a feel-good movie. For Beth Carlyle, it might be more of a disaster epic. Her ex-husband's new...
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Mage's influence volume 3
Publisher
Luminant Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 277 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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The wild power is getting stronger and ignoring it won't be possible for much longer. Cadence is willing to sacrifice herself if it will save them all, but Airlie and Zeke are determined to find another way. Drawn to the Hidden City, Cadence and Airlie are swept into the cutthroat terrain of nomad politics. Tribe Nicabar hope to seize the throne, but Annora's secrets threaten everything--including the sisters. But while the twisted vines that connect...
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Series
Mage's influence volume 1
Publisher
Luminant Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 289 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Cadence and her sister possess the seeds of glory and ruin or so their father always insisted. Cadence never understood what he meant until Airlie's seed of power is activated, turning her into the most powerful mage in generations. Despite knowing it must mean her own dormant seed is much more malevolent, Cadence is swept away to the distant Mage's Guild in her sister's wake. She's used to living in Airlie's shadow, but she can't see a place for...
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"Faith Ferguson is New York's most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies, and exclusive fAetes. She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not necessarily the most expensive one. As much as Faith enjoys her work, her two failed engagements leave her with no desire to get married herself. She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with...
12) I'm a big sister
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A sister enumerates the joys of welcoming a new baby to the family and the advantages of already being "big."
13) Appalachian song
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English
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Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon...
14) Lady of disguise
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Dericott tale volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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England, 1388: All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored “Giant’s Treasure,” a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce monster. It’s a story her father used to tell her, and when he dies and she and her younger sister have to go live with their shiftless, greedy uncle, Louisa is determined to find that treasure. It’s the hope that has kept her defying her uncle’s...
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
126 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone -- a fairy tale about a magical...
17) Red Hart magic
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Magic books (Andre Norton) volume 6
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English
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A brother and sister by marriage are taken back to the time of King James I in England where their solution of problems there enables them to better deal with some serious peer problems in their own time and with their acceptance of each other as family.
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Peep and Egg volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. ;
Language
English
Description
"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready...yet"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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While Mom and Dad are away, a pirate takes Billy and his sister Heidi on a wild adventure, sailing their "fish-stick finger" house to Itchy Ear Island and telling them quirky facts about pirates, parrots, and cabbages.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (900 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three daughters, firebrand social justice warrior Melanie 'Mel' Vera, fun-loving Maggie, and brilliant geneticist Macy find out they're actually powerful witches, as was their mother. It's a lot to take in, but ultimately the sisters accept their new destiny.
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