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Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
As he makes the seventeen-mile pilgrimage to the Santuario de Chimayâo that he hopes will save his beloved grandmother from cancer, eleven-year-old Eloy is joined by a friendly dog that helps him keep going.
25) Doubt
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns for a male colleague.
26) False witness
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Faced with costly repairs to the cloistered Our Lady of Hope monastery, Sister Agatha, the local extern nun with a talent for detection, accepts an offer by the ailing and wealthy John Gutierrez to search for his estranged niece, who is believed to be inthe area.
Author
Publisher
Stoddart Kids
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Ireland two hundred years ago during the harsh English occupation of the country, Meggy is determined that the children in her village will have a school where they can learn in safety.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between 'progress' and 'tradition' in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic...
30) Unholy fire
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Father John Rafferty is plunged into scandal when a young woman is murdered in his church.
34) Vinegar Hill
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ellen Grier returns with her husband and children to their midwestern Catholic hometown to live with her narrow-minded in-laws, coping with the family's eccentricity and confronting a hidden secret festering in her husband's past
35) Bad Samaritan
Author
Series
Sister Agatha volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sister Agatha is an extern nun -- the link between the cloistered sisters and the community -- for the Our Lady of Hope monastery in the small town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. Using the skills she developed as an investigative journalist before she heeded the calling to become a nun, Sister Agatha has become renowned -- sometimes even infamous -- for her crime-solving skills. Sister Agatha is being sorely tested. Our Lady of Hope monastery is about...
36) First confession
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jackie faces his first confession with great trepidation following a warning lecture from his obnoxious, older sister.
39) Cradle and all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to...