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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A woman in Maine seeks the truth regarding her mother's mysterious death and discovers infidelity and betrayal. Officially, the mother had a fatal accident while on a walking tour in Wales. The tour was with her husband, his colleague and the colleague's wife. By the author of Hell.
5) Framed
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A village in north Wales is split over a project to turn the ruins of a castle into a tourist attraction. The argument between economists and environmentalists leads to murders and Constable Evan Evans has work to do.
11) The snow spider
Author
Series
Magician trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
13) The winter witch
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Mute fledgling witch Morgana is married for her safety to a kind farmer in the mountains of Wales before she is targeted by townspeople who are being manipulated by a dark force that compels Morgana to harness her powers.
14) Any old iron
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A story of survival in our century and the destinies of two families, one Welsh, and one Jewish, who are bound together by marriage.
15) Slammerkin
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Saunders's mother scratches out a meager living as a seamstress in 1760s London, but Mary longs for a more luxurious life with fine ribbons and clothes. At 13, she sneers at her mother's suggestion that she take up the needle, then makes a fateful mistake that leads her into prostitution. On the street, the young woman indulges her fine tastes and lives an independent life. When illness forces her to seek help, she vows to reform her lifestyle....
Author
Series
Magician trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To purge the anger from an ancient Welsh demonic god that he had helped release, and to soothe a moody, troubled soldier, Gwyn Griffiths draws on the strength of his namesake and ancestor in Welsh magic, Gwydion Gwyn.
17) The grey king
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this volume of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
19) Rockoholic
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jody Flook is known for doing stupid things, but when she accidentally kidnaps her idol, rock star Jackson Gaitlin, at his only concert in the entire United Kingdom, and he does not want to leave her garage, she is in real trouble.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
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