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1) Messenger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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Hosseini, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," has written a new novel about how people love, how they take care of one another, and how choices resonate through generations. From Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos--the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
3) Cannery Row
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now age eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac, Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach,...
6) Red mountain
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully nude. Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex. High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
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"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie)...
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Series
Red Mountain chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Boo Walker has returned to wine country for the sequel to his powerful, best-selling novel, Red Mountain. Join four wildly colorful characters as they search for life, love, and meaning in a tiny wine-growing region in the desert of eastern Washington State"--Amazon.com.
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Series
Tupelo Landing volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--
12) Minding Frankie
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When Noel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
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Red Mountain chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Boo Walker has returned to wine country for the sequel to his powerful, best-selling novel, Red Mountain. Join four wildly colorful characters as they search for life, love, and meaning in a tiny wine-growing region in the desert of eastern Washington State"--Amazon.com.
14) Lucky for Good
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
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The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the cafe, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
15) Elevation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
16) Echoes
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From severely varying backgrounds, but both wishing to escape their families' influence, David and Clare fall in love while away from their small Irish coastal village.
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Series
Happy County volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Adventure awaits in another exciting trip through Happy County-where each new season packs plenty of surprises! Farmer Del rides his tractor through the crops all summer long, Jimmy and Sammy search for Grammy Tammy in the autumn corn maze, Dolly and Molly build an igloo with the fresh winter snow, and Mr. Humdinger's flower garden buzzes with pollination when spring arrives. With every page turn, discover lovable characters and educational content...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives -- aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale -- opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash."
19) The Arsonist
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for fifteen years, Frankie Rowley has come home-home to the small New Hampshire village of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Then another house burns, and another, always the houses of the summer people. In a town where people have never bothered to lock their doors, social fault...
20) Hello, world!
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Series
Happy County volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces the sights and residents of Happy County, where a lot of things are happening and every day can end on a happy note.