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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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This carefully abridged edition follows the exciting adventures of water-loving Rat, sensitive Mole, fun-loving Toad and wise Badger as they mess about in boats, get lost in the Wild Wood and battle to take back Toad Hall. Favourite characters and scenes have been reimagined with plate illustrations, presented in a sumptuous hardback design.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
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Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
James becomes the unwitting source of wild rumors that a Lizard Man has appeared in his quiet rural community. Poor James Arthur is bored to tears. Nothing exciting ever happens in Crabtree County. Well, at least, not since that squash that looked like Abraham Lincoln! Growing desperate, he tries disguising himself as a shrub. With any luck, a bird might land on his head. At the end of a long day spent plastered in leaves, however, he still has nothing...
11) One man's meat
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
First published in 1942, this collection of essays on Maine life has been in print almost without interruption. The author began this collection as a series of pieces for Harper's Magazine when he left New York City and moved to a saltwater farm in Brooklin, Maine. His observations on town meetings, poultry, the weather, songbirds, compost, taxes, war, winter, and much more will resonate just as strongly today, to anyone attuned to Maine life, as...
12) Over Back
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A young girl's favorite spot is Over Back, a place of pools and trees over across the fields back behind the barn, where the wonders of nature wait to be discovered each day.
15) Grandpa & Bo
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Bo spends the summer with his grandfather in the country and has a wonderful time.
16) The old meadow
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
When a quiet corner of the meadow is made into a historical landmark, Chester Cricket and the other meadow creatures join forces to prevent the eviction of Mr. Budd and his dog.
18) The copper beech
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.
Author
Publisher
Blair, an imprint of Carolina Wren Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a...
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