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Pine Island volume 2
Language
English
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The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.
Author
Series
Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In their second term at Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students that the path to The Top starts at the Bottom of the Barrel and other silly lessons"--
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
Language
English
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In the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Tasmin and her family are under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing red men and buffalo with towns and farms. Jim Snow, Kit Carson and one of Lord Berrybender's many illegitimate...
6) Housekeeping
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English
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The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt.
Author
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
Language
English
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At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. Although Tasmin intends Monty to become an English gentleman like his grandfather, he lives the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where those lucky enough to survive...
9) Stargirl
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
10) Jack the Tripper
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Someone is tripping students at Benjamin Dizzy Elementary School and taking their candy and homework, but the resulting nervousness does not quell people's excitement over the upcoming Dizzy Day Parade, when the rule is "anything goes."
13) Tin heart
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Language
English
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Marlowe hopes that meeting the family of her heart donor will help her move on from being "The Dying Girl," but family, neighborhood, and other complications hold her back.
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Language
English
Description
Ruthie Midona has worked the front desk of Providence Retirement Villa for years, living on-site at the beck and call of the wealthy residents-- and the rare tortoises that roam the lawn. Teddy Prescott, son of Providence's new owner, is in town saving up money to pursue his dream of opening a tattoo shop. He's the definition of risky, and Ruthie's dazzled-- until he mistakes her for an old lady! She has revenge in mind: her most eccentric residents,...
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Applewhites volume 1
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English
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Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
16) Love, Stargirl
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Language
English
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
17) Pine Island home
Author
Series
Pine Island volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
Author
Series
Monk volume 12
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Monk investigates three strangers and murder victims--a security guard, a struggling student, and a beautiful woman--who have nothing in common but a couch.
20) Counting by 7s
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English
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Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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