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English
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"Tom Brokaw is known as one of the hardest-working, most successful people in broadcast journalism. His success is attributed to his work ethic, his instinct for identifying the significance of the news in the lives of ordinary people, and his reputation for always showing up for others. In this heartfelt family story, Tom shows the values and lessons he absorbed from his ancestors, parents, and others who settled in South Dakota and worked hard to...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Maria and her family visit an apple orchard and pick apples. Then it's time to turn the apples into applesauce! Every year they use the special pot that has been in the family for generations to make applesauce. Follow each step in the process as everyone helps to make delicious applesauce!"--
5) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
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Language
English
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Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"High school junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope with estranged family and figure out her own life"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
10) I am thankful
Author
Series
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Throughout a Thanksgiving Day filled with family and fun, a child finds opportunities to be thankful.
11) Golden acres
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Alphonse and I moved to our, "dream farm" ten miles north of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and we came to call our farm, "Golden Acres." I thought about it for a while and I decided to call my last book after the name of our farm. As you will read it wasn't always easy making a living with a large family on the farm, but with God's help, a strong husband, my good health, and children who all worked to build our family, it is a sweet memorable life....
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Garcia family is moving to a new house, and twins Carlos and Carmen do not want to leave their small, familiar home--especially since they do not understand why their father describes the new place as a one-tire house.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Emmy and Callie have no secrets between them until a mysterious accident robs one of a crucial memory and sparks troubling visions. Only through letters they exchange while painfully separated do the sisters reveal hidden truths leading back to a fateful springtime day--and a chilling September night--that changed them both forever"--
15) Flash
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are visiting their cousins in the country when they find an abandoned border collie puppy. Flash loves to run and chase, so Charles and Lizzie know not just any home will work for this puppy. Can they find a forever home that's just right for Flash?
16) Pugsley
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Liz meets a mischievous young pug named Pugsley while working at her aunt's day care center for dogs, she steps in to train Pugsley so that he can get a good owner.
Author
Series
New Americana volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love"--
18) White hot
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning to her Louisiana steel mill home town after the suicide of her younger brother, Danny, Sayre Lynch examines the turbulent relationship between her younger brother and their favored older brother and begins to suspect that Danny may have been murdered, a situation complicated by her father's corrupt attorney.
19) The big rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a three-day rainstorm, twins Carlos and Carmen go out to play in their wet and muddy backyard--and soon their parents join in the fun.
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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