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21) The Fiddler
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
Description
"A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever"--P. [4] of cover.
22) Payback time
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
23) The bridesmaid
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible...
24) Ghost boy
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
Author
Series
Bird and Squirrel volume 6
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bird learns that friends and family are the way to win in life, even if they don't come with a trophy!
28) Autumn letters
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This is a coming-of-age story set in the mid-sixties, in America's heartland. The story spans three years in the lives of four teenagers connected to a small Nebraska town.
29) After the War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
31) In This Moment
Author
Series
Description
Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but the high turnout at every meeting encourages him. A year later, violence and...
34) A Night Divided
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
35) Somebody's Baby
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
A study of a young woman's search for the truth, and of the painful possibility that we may not get answers to every question; that we may also get some answers we don't like, but, ultimately, we might just discover what matters most to us.
36) Little green men
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The strange land of Washington, D.C., is teeming with aliens, politicians, and other bizarre life-forms. Beltway insider and stuffy talk-show host John Oliver Banion finds his priviledged life turned topsy-turvy when he is abducted by aliens from his exclusive country-club golf course.