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1) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted...
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Language
English
Description
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly...
4) Hop on Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
190L
Language
English
Description
Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."
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Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S/TEENAGE)" Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little...
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Language
English
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Description
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
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Language
English
Description
"Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman--the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer--as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon...
10) Onion John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 8
Language
English
Description
In this conclusion to the authors' Seven Sisters series, the sisters learn about their own pasts as well as about their adoptive father, Pa Salt, finding that these long-concealed truths can still affect their lives now.
1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. The family shows him a life he hadn't dreamed possible-- but refuses to speak a word about who he really is. Growing up, he falls in love, and takes...
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meet his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, get waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws. His lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope-robbing his family of a loving husband and father. Now a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengance trail-packing Daniel Strange's trademark twin Colt, riding the same chestnut...
13) Owl moon
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
14) True grit
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
15) Just like daddy
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Language
English
Description
A very young bear describes all the activities he does during the day that are just like his daddy's.
16) Home
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Series
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English
Description
Hailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic...
17) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
18) Flush
Author
Series
Juvenile volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
19) The accident
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Language
English
Description
It is the new normal at the Garber household in Connecticut. Glen, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. Waiting for Sheila's return, with their eight-year-old daughter sleeping soundly, Glen soon finds his worst fears confirmed: Sheila and two others have been killed...
20) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
In this postapocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they...