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2) Hoodoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 1
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Five adventures in Bonny's busy four-year-old life with her three sisters and brothers in the days of copper-toed shoes.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 3
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the youngest Fairchild sisters, Bonnie and Debby, as they spend their summer in various moneymaking enterprises in the hill country of early 1900s' Kentucky.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family's wealthy city life couldn't be more different from her country upbringing. With her plain clothes and more practical interests, Polly is out of place among a crowd focused on following the latest trends and presenting the right image. One of the few people who doesn't pressure her to fit in is Fanny's brother, Tom, but he's also one...
Author
Series
Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
13) Six bits a day
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a family, including their friends and servants, ranging from young to old, reveal the personal behind the political, reminding us of the human lives that animate historical events.
Iran, 1979; the Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi-Khanoom, continue to run their...
Author
Publisher
Riverbend Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Mernin's distinguished carreer in the National Park Service spanned four decades, five national parks, and a remarkable 32-year stay in Yellowstone, the park he loved and never left. In his long-awaited memoir, Mernin takes readers behind the scenes to learn firsthand what it's like to be a great park ranger. Along the way he shares a lifetime of exciting adventures, including dangerous rescues, remote backcountry patrols, and multiple heart-pounding...
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. Anne's a dreamer with an unusual point of view, far removed from Marilla's pragmatic ways, and it's only on trial that Marilla agrees to keep Anne...if Anne can keep out of trouble, only Anne has a positive genius...
Author
Series
Publisher
White Star Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Duty To Your Country Is All You Have To Live For, How Do You Go On Living? Ericha is a woman with nothing—not even her father’s name. Following her mother’s death she is guided to Horstberg in search of answers and contentment. When her path repeatedly crosses with the brooding Stefan Heinrich, she is drawn to him by feelings too profound to ignore. The love they share is intense and undeniable, but Ericha’s ignorance of Stefan’s circumstances...
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