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1) Nature girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
When a rude telemarketer calls while Honey Santana and her son are having dinner she decides to teach him a lesson in good behavior. She lures him and his mistress with a pitch for Florida real estate and includes her ex-husband and 12-year-old son in her plot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friend George Bess win a vacation to an eco-resort in Costa Rica. But after a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents, " it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of her friends, Nancy takes on the case to get to the bottom of it before the entire week at Casa Verde is ruined -- or worse. Can she uncover who is sabotaging the resort before...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and...