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Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
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