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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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Description
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple.
Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. While scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water... and...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
4) Bellewether
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe,...
Author
Series
South Seas adventures volume 7
Publisher
Tyndale House Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 1
Pub. Date
[1981]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh knows his family isn't typical, but when Grandpa and Uncle Charlie begin to Auntie Lou a husband he knows something has to be done. How can Josh find his way in the world when his whole world is threatens to come apart?
Publisher
Enthuse Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from religious persecution in Germany, the Leininger family builds a homestead in Pennsylvania; only to find themselves caught in the French and Indian War. When daughters Barbara and Regina are kidnapped by the Delaware, the tribe takes them to Ohio. Will their faith in God and devotion to each other sustain them in the harsh wilderness? Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest you could see her flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love--to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose...
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English
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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Father of the bride: The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement, setting off an outrageous chin of events, including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm.
Father of the bride Part II: George Banks feels far too young to be a grandfather...and way too old to become a father again. So, when his recently married daughter Annie and his wife Nina both announce they're pregnant, the news...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When they were born on May 28, 1934, quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie, and Marie captivated the world, defying medical history with every breath they took. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the quints, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family. Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs their unprecedented upbringing with depth and subtlety,...
18) French kiss
Author
Language
English
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Description
Looking for a fresh start, French detective Luc Moncrief joins the NYPD, but someone sets out to ensure that his first case is his last.
19) War and peace
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic.
20) Shadow
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.
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