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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The lives of 91-year-old Ira Levinson, young cowboy Luke, and Wake Forest College senior Sophia Danko converge in an extraordinary and unexpected way as Ira clings to his wife Ruth's words and his memories and Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans.
2) This girl
Author
Series
Slammed novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colleen Hoovers New York Times bestselling Slammed series has brought countless readers to their knees with a whirlwind of love passion and heartache. Layken and Wills love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers now married are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband even...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the second novel in a brand-new series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life--the dramatic story of a woman desperate to find deeper meaning in her life. Growing up in a comfortable home, Mary Catherine wanted for nothing. Though she loves her wealthy parents, their lifestyle never appealed to her. Instead, Mary Catherine pursues meaning through charity work,...
4) The choice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Resisting romantic commitments while enjoying a life of boating, swimming, and barbecues, Travis Parker is unable to deny his attraction to new neighbor Gabby Holland, a defensive woman whose long-time boyfriend further challenges Travis' growing feelings.
5) The shack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back...
Author
Series
Slammed novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of willpower to keep their love afloat.
Author
Series
Slammed novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form...
Author
Series
Seasons of the heart (Janette Oke) volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
As graduation nears, Josh Jones worries that he is the only member of his class not to know what he wants to do with his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series...
Author
Series
Christmas hope series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Young Nathan Andrews was a child who lost his mother to cancer. Now his deepest wish is to become a doctor. When a stranger named Robert gave him the money to buy his mother a pair of shoes for her last Christmas, both Robert and Nathan learned the deepest lessons of love and giving. Now a medical student in his third year, Nathan realizes there are still things to be learned about faith, blessings, and sacrifice. Lessons he will learn from Meghan...
11) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
12) Every now & then
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wall went up around Alex Brady's heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California's history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to...
13) After you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite having jobs and men that they love, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget know something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn't take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle...
16) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
17) One summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
19) Ever after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two couples torn apart-one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship, founded on a mutual faith in God and nurtured by their trust and love for each other, proves to be a shining inspiration to everyone they know, especially Emily's...
20) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
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