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"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same, " in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchieves using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart....
5) Sophie
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 340L
Language
English
Description
As Sophie grows bigger and her grandfather gets smaller, they continue to love each other very much.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
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Publisher
Nicci Kadilak
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As First Daughter of the Garden Society, Lucinda has devoted her life to bringing natural birth back to a world where it has been outlawed. But when her best friend dies giving birth illegally and Lucinda is forced to cover up the cause of death, the stakes of this lifelong secret become all too real. Emeka is a decorated detective known for his objectivity and level head. But his latest case leads him too close to home, and he must shift his perspective--or...
11) The quilt
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Description
An about-to-be born baby girl describes some of the things she does inside her mother's belly, like yoga, ballet dancing, playing baseball, and cooking a feast for hundreds of hungry dogs.
14) An ordinary day
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be extraordinary in this story about new life, death, and family"--
15) Scorpica
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Series
Five queendoms volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other, and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms,...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Cedar Cove Christmas: After a comedy of errors on Christmas Eve, a nine-month pregnant woman, traveling to Cedar Cove to search for her child's father--who doesn't know she's pregnant--finds herself lodging in an apartment above a barn. The residents of Cedar Grove come to her rescue as an early labor begins.
5-B Poppy Lane: Ruth loves visiting her grandmother in Cedar Cove, so she doesn't hesitate to stop in when she needs advice about her own romance....
17) I'm not hatching
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Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 400L
Language
English
Description
"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready ... yet"--
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A Cedar Cove Christmas: Mary Jo Wyse finds herself in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve stranded, pregnant and alone. And there's no room at the local inn... So Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her ranch, where they've got a spare room over the stable. And luckily a paramedic name Mack McAfee is there to help when Mary Jo goes into labor. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane: Beth Morehouse expects ths Christmas to be one of her best. But someone leaves a basket...
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Anna Mae was shunned by her family four years ago when she left her Amish community to marry a non-Amish man in Baltimore. She arrives back in Lancaster County for Christmas. Is it too late for a miracle? She's determined to follow God's will regardless of the outcome.
