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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Based on the spellbinding world of the Walt Disney Studios film, Tomorrowland, this original prequel novel features a 20-page comic book and unlocks a place of unfathomable science and technology and the famous people behind it. The year is 1939. A secret society of extraordinary geniuses is about to share an incredible discovery with the world. A misguided enemy - half man, half machine - will stop at nothing to prevent the group from giving this...
4) Dimestore
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A "book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child...Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son's mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing"--Lois Gross for LibraryReads."--NoveList.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
For mother and daughter, Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, it's a year of change. Much of it is expected, like Rory's graduation from Chilton and the anxiety of waiting for college acceptance letters. But much of the change is not. Rory starts the year with two boyfriends, and that may be two too many. Lorelai rekindles the flame of romance with Max. Lane meets Mr. Right. Sookie gets a good surprise The Independence Inn gets a not-so-good surprise.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Betty Suarez is smart, sweet and hard working. The only problem is that she's not thin and beautiful like all her coworkers at Mode, the high-fashion magazine where she works. The only reason the publisher hired her to be his son's secretary, is that he figured Betty was someone who Daniel would never sleep with. Along the way, Betty's hard work and determination earns Daniel's respect. She helps him find his way through the shark infested waters...
Author
Series
28 summers (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award-winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood and self-discovery set against the backdrop of WWII. 1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A smart, independent brunette named Chelsea may finally have turned party-boy Charlie into a man. Jake locks lips with the cute girl next door, the one whose football-star dad is named Mad Dog. Judith prepares for a midlife baby, who may end up looking a lot like Alan. Alan dates his receptionist, then ends up in bed with her frisky mom.
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