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41) Seedfolks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take onthe most important case of Mo's life"--
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the challenges confronting those living in today's rural West. Bridging the Distance examines a number of the problems and prospects of the rural West that have largely been neglected by scholars. The issues are considered in four sections: Defining the Rural West, Community, Economy, and Land Use; each with an introduction by editor David Danbom. The essays highlight factors that set the region apart from the rest of the country and provide...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
45) Cat found
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
In a town where cats are tormented, eleven-year-old Billy finds Conga, injured and unappealing, and hides her in his bedroom to recover, then begins a crusade to stop the cat killers and find a safe haven for strays.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building, Granny teaches the neighborhood children how to care for her vegetable garden like she does: with love, patience and pride, in this beautiful story of how one person can bring together an entire community"--
47) The sittin' up
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--
48) 8 Sandpiper Way
Author
Series
Cedar Cove series volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cedar Cove is shocked after Pastor Dave Flemming is accused of stealing jewelry. His wife, Emily, doesn't know what to believe, especially since Dave is being so evasive. Then she finds an earring in his pocket. Could he have stolen it--or is he having an affair?
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Desperate for a way to slow down and connect, Kristin Schell put an ordinary picnic table in her front yard, painted it turquoise, and began inviting friends and neighbors to join her. Life changed in her community, and it can change in yours too. Along with personal stories, Kristin shares ideas for starting your own Turquoise Table, simple recipes to take outside and share, and stories from people using Turquoise Tables in their own neighborhoods....
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Author
Series
Blessings volume 10
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas.
Citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas, know there's never a dull moment in their small town…Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. So does his...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Characters and themes from Stephen King's multiple universes converge in the fictional town of Castle Rock. In season two a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock. And as the town celebrates its 400th anniversary, Castle Rock's first settlers -- including Henry Deaver -- find themselves joining in the festivities.
54) El día del agua
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
55) Unfadeable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Aspiring astronaut Rocket draws her community together to see a rare appearance of the Phoenix Meteor Showers, hoping especially that her big brother, Jamal, will look up from his phone.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Lyons Press pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and...
60) Cannery Row
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
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