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Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sane people are boring, Sabrina Dunsweeney tells her friends when they try to convince her that she is crazy to travel to tiny, isolated Comico Island to recover from a cancer scare and the sudden loss of her mother. Sabrina, who has a tendency toward hypochondria and very bad cooking, soon meets Lima Lowry, the tallest tale-teller on the island.
He tells her all about the pirate Walk-the-Plank Wrightly, who died 200 years ago and who has recently...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Dunsweeney desperately needs a job. After moving to isolated Comico Island with her parakeet Calvin to start a new chapter of her life, Sabrina is discovering that life in a beautiful, tropical environment isn't all fun and games. When the town council offers her employment as the island's first official ombudsman to cope with the burgeoning tourist influx, Sabrina is thrilled.
Her first order of business is to deal with a number of burglaries....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them. Now: Jesse is still coping with her brother's death on 9/11 and the way her dad filled their home with anger and grief. When one thoughtless decision turns her life upside down,...