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Miranda's vines
Par Kimberly Kafka. 2004
Miranda and Bridie are lifelong, crisis-surviving friends. Miranda is riding the crest of her culinary career, and Bridie is a…
champion dogsled racer. Then disaster strikes both their lives, forcing them into drastic decisions and testing the bonds of their friendship. Strong language. 2004The master quilter: an Elm Creek Quilts novel (Elm Creek Quilts Ser. #No. 6)
Par Jennifer Chiaverini. 2004
The Elm Creek Quilters were quite surprised when master quilter Sylvia married Andrew Cooper on Christmas Eve. Now they are…
secretly conspiring to create a bridal quilt. But the project hits a snag when the local stitchers are confronted with their own personal problems. 2004A loving scoundrel: a Malory novel
Par Johanna Lindsey. 2004
Danny, a street-living London lass dressed as a lad, helps gentleman rake Jeremy Malory steal back jewels lost in a…
card game. Intrigued by her spunk, Jeremy hires her as a maid. When Danny poses as his new love, someone recognizes her, endangering her future. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004Storybook treasury of Dick and Jane and friends
Par Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, Dorothy Walter Baruch, William S Gray. 2003
Reissue of three Dick and Jane books, originally published in the 1940s and 1950s, that were widely used in schools…
to teach reading to children. The stories include: We Look and See, We Come and Go, and The New We Work and Play. For grades K-3. 2003Don't bug me!
Par Pam Zollman. 2001
Sixth-grader Megan needs twenty-five insects for a science project, but her five-year-old brother Alexander doesn't want her to kill them.…
Then pesky classmate Charlie embarrasses Megan before the whole class. As the deadline approaches, she takes some risks. For grades 4-7. 2001The winter queen: A Novel
Par Jane Stevenson. 2002
Holland, 1630s. Freed African slave Pelagius van Overmeer, a former prince of the Yoruba tribe, studies theology and has a…
reputation as a seer. With the Winter Queen--Elizabeth of Bohemia, exiled widowed sister of England's Charles I--he develops a bond that turns to love, yet must remain secretGoing to bend: a novel
Par Diane Coplin Hammond. 2004
In the fishing village of Hubbard, Oregon, Petie and Rose--both thirty-one and mothers, girlhood friends, and partners in business--struggle with…
their dark past and cloudy present. While the women write and illustrate a cookbook, their hidden talents emerge, radically changing their lives and their futures. Strong language. 2004Leap day: a novel
Par Wendy Mass. 2004
Chronicles one full day in the life of sixteen-year-old Josie as she takes her driving test, discovers where her father…
works, participates in a scavenger hunt, and celebrates her fourth leap-year birthday. In alternating chapters, family and friends shed different perspectives on the day's events. For senior high readers. 2004United Tates of America: a novel with scrapbook art
Par Paula Danziger. 2002
Eleven-year-old Sarah "Skate" Tate faces many disappointments entering middle school: she must endure a long bus ride every day, her…
cousin and best friend finds new companions and hobbies, and a death in the family occurs. But throughout all her trials Skate continues a scrapbook project. For grades 4-7. 2002Doing time online
Par Jan Siebold, Wendy McClure. 2002
Twelve-year-old Mitch is sentenced to community service after his prank harms an elderly woman. To make amends he must chat…
online with a nursing home resident twice a week. Over time he bonds with Wootie Hayes, and the two become friends. For grades 4-7. 2002San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (Historical Romance Ser.)
Par Kathleen Duey. 1999
San Francisco, 1906. Chambermaid Sierra O'Neille works in the hotel where rancher Joseph Harlan and his family are staying. While…
rescuing others when disaster strikes, the two are thrown together and fall in love. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Saving Lilly
Par Peg Kehret. 2001
Sixth-graders Erin and David have researched the topic of circus animal abuse, so when their teacher schedules a field trip…
to the Glitter Tent Circus they refuse to go. Instead they raise money to send a mistreated elephant, Lilly, to an animal sanctuary. For grades 3-6. 2001Anna Casey's place in the world
Par Adrian Fogelin. 2001
Twelve-year-old orphan Anna runs out of relatives and is placed in Miss Dupree's foster home with another neglected child, ten-year-old…
asthmatic Eb. After they spend the summer in Tallahassee making friends with the neighbors and finding adventure, Anna hopes to stay. For grades 5-8. 2001Eeyore has a birthday (Beginning chapter book)
Par Stephen Krensky. 1926
In this adaptation of the famous classic by A.A. Milne (1882-1956), Eeyore the donkey feels ignored on his birthday so…
Pooh and Piglet attempt to provide a proper celebration. Beginning chapter book. For grades 2-4. 2001Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day
Par Barbara Park. 2001
Junie B. Jones is selected as her classroom's captain in the kindergarten field day. After her group loses several races…
to another team, Junie B. rallies her schoolmates to victory. For grades K-3. 2001Twelve-year-old Australian Cedar misses her brother who ran away from boarding school and her mother who works all the time.…
But she copes by roaming the neighborhood, romping with her dog, and learning acrobatics from a new neighbor whose parents are in a circus. For grades 5-8. 2002A Palestine affair: A Novel
Par Jonathan Wilson. 2003
Jerusalem, 1924. English artist Bloomberg and his American wife, Joyce, a non-Jewish Zionist, arrive in British-ruled Palestine to begin a…
new life. After a murder in their garden Joyce has an affair with Robert Kirsch, the British policeman investigating the crime. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003Cairo Kelly and the Mann
Par Kristin Butcher. 2002
Cairo and Midge, mischief-making baseball players, have been sent to their middle school principal's office fifty-five times in one year.…
But when they learn that their favorite umpire, Harold Mann, can't read, they rally to help him pass the sports league's new test. For grades 4-7. 2002The seeing summer
Par Jeannette Eyerly. 1981
At first Carey is disappointed when she learns Jenny, the new girl next door, is blind. She soon discovers, though,…
that she and Jenny are more alike than different, especially after they are kidnapped. For grades 3-6. 1981The great fire
Par Shirley Hazzard. 2003
1947. Thirty-two-year-old British major Aldred Leith comes from China to Occupied Japan to report on Hiroshima conditions. Postwar loneliness haunts…
him and his friend Peter Exley, who saved his life in battle. Leith falls in love with teenaged Australian Helen Driscoll, who is also struggling to recover from personal trauma. National Book Award. 2003