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In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she's "not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade." When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing "I won't come back until I'm somebody." But in our hearts she already is. Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey...
2) Two By Two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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"At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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It's time for the little red chicken's bedtime story -- and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can't help herself! Whether the tale is "Hansel and Gretel" or "Little Red Riding Hood" or even "Chicken Little," she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters. When it's the little red chicken's turn to tell a story, will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, "Scout", returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming becomes bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
5) Fool me once
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Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat--and a confession.
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2016.
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
7) Owl moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
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2020.
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Twenty years ago four individuals pulled a heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. By daybreak one was in the hospital; one was in jail; one was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, a daughter of the man who disappeared, has never reconciled with her father's abandonment of her and her sister. Returning to her family home near Caddo Lake, she finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Unfortunately two...
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Tinderbox volume 2
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"As the only daughter, Sylvia Miller of The Tinderbox has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she shows up at the Millers' Hickory Hollow farm. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of the painful secret that has so recently upended the Miller household. And with Sylvia and her mother still struggling to come to terms with that news, this is a challenging...
10) Open season
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Joe Pickett novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Joe Pickett, a dedicated Wyoming game warden, finds the body of a well-known poacher in his back yard. As Joe starts to investigate, he gets some very strong indications from those in power that he should accept the explanation he's been given and put the matter to rest.
11) Seizure
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Virals novels volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Tory Brennan and her friends team up to save the Loggerhead Island Research Institute when it runs out of funding and make tracks for Charleston, where the treasure of the she-pirate, Anne Bonney, was lost but never found, but Tory and her friends are not the only ones searching for the treasure and their special powers might not be enough to keep them out of trouble this time around.
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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
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c2004
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Life is rewarding for Samuel Truelove. Heś a gifted heart surgeon, heś married to the love of his life, and he has a beautiful daughter. But when he mis-diagnoses his daughterś illness and is suddenly called away to perform emergency surgery, a deadly cascade of events is set in motion. After multiple tragedies, Sam withdraws into himself, takes a leave of absence, and joins a small town clinic. His search for redemption and healing will test the...
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House of Wolves volume 1
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The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.
17) Beach music
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Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
18) True colors
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The Grey sisters, of a small town in Washington, have just buried their mother. Their father is devastated by her death, decides to bury his pain in the bottom of a liquor bottle. Moving forward 13 years, the author delves into the lives and hearts of these young women, their families, and the unusual bonds that make up this family.
19) High lonesome
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Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn...
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Virals novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"The Virals must find a geocache concealing a bomb--and the clock is ticking."--