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Louisa May Alcott created a story that impresses through its simplicity and is able to help teenagers regain their trust and self-confidence even today. Exploring themes that revolve around family issues, being disregarded and rejected by friends, and the struggles of a young girl in the big city, An Old-Fashioned Girl is a tale that girls and women are able to closely identify with, many having been able to find solace in Alcott's fascinating and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
4) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Through a hard turn of events, Reese Thackery has become an indentured servant. When the owner of her contract dies, the bank has rights to her fate. Conner Kingsley, the son of the bank's owner, comes to Tucker Mills to investigate and soon releases Reese from obligation and hires her to keep house for him.
Reese is grateful for freedom but unsure of her other feelings for Conner. Yet, as her emotional hurts heal, and her faith blossoms, Reese allows...
6) Cape Light
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Series
Cape Light novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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A novel by the American artist journeys to the picturesque village of Cape Light on the coast of New England, a hamlet populated by colorful inhabitants who share a strong sense of community and caring for their neighbors.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.
"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see-to the...
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Series
Cape Light novels volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Emily Warwick struggles to build a new relationship with Sara, the daughter she had given up for adoption two decades earlier, while dealing with her regret over their years apart and falling for newspaper publisher Dan Forbes.
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Cape Light novels volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
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English
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Single mom Molly Willoughby meets Dr. Matthew Harding, widower and newcomer to Cape Light, a small town in New England, but they are both reluctant to start a new relationship, and Reverend Ben guides Tucker Tulley when someone unexpected shows up on Tucker's doorstep.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Emily is mayor of Cape Light and her life is full but she has time for her elderly mother and her sister. Emily must convince her mother that the man her sister wants to marry is good. Emily mourns her late husband and wonders about the baby she gave up for adoption 20 years ago.
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
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Regan Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
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English
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With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of...
13) Ox-cart man
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
14) Crossroads
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 9
Language
English
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In a town like Cape Light, there's always room in the inn. But when hardships bring people together under one roof, things don't always go smoothly.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 5
Language
English
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Arriving in Cape Light to spend the holidays, James Cameron, a minister who runs a mission in Central America, finds himself falling for fellow visitor Leigh Baxter, a young woman searching for a hiding place from the dark secrets of the past.
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Series
Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Cape Light novels volume 7
Language
English
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Confined to her bed with a bout of pneumonia while the other inhabitants of Cape Light prepare for the holidays, curmudgeonly Lillian Warwick reminisces about the holiday season of 1955, when she met her future husband, Oliver Warwick.
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