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Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and...
2) The guardian
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The sweet scent of honeysuckle mingled with the oppressing humidity as I made the turn onto Harvest Road. A few more clip-clops of Dandy's hooves on the pavement, and just that quick, the family carriage fell still. The children were sound asleep. I breathed a grateful prayer, thinking how far my young ones had come since their father's farming accident three years ago. "Children are ever so resilient, Maryanna," Great-Aunt Heddy had whispered today...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the Blessing estate, finds a baby asleep in a box and decides he wants to keep her. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present are at the center of this work.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
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A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate - in the form of a newborn left in the restroom - has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment." When John Hartwell...
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A mysterious crying in the night leads search-and-rescue worker Bree Matthews and her dog Samson to an abandoned baby in the woods outside of Rock Harbor, Michigan. Against objections from her husband, Bree takes the baby girl in. Quickly she begins a search for the mother--presumably the woman reported missing just days earlier. While teams scour the wintery forests, Bree ferrets out clues about the woman. Where is she and why did she leave the child...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
11) Always October
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.
12) Silas Marner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over their very ill deacon. Two pieces of evidence are against Silas: his possession of a pocket knife and the bag that formerly contained the money. Although there is also...
13) Castle Avamir
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Unicorn's secret volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2003
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1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The old stories say that Castle Avamir is higher than the clouds, deep in a valley, under the stars, and over the moon. If Heart can't solve the riddle, she might never find a safe haven for her beloved unicorns.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--Publisher.
15) The unadoptables
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Spending all their young lives at the Little Tulip orphanage, five clever kids plot a daring escape from a conscripting sea captain before the search for one orphan’s mysterious origins leads them through back roads, alleys and canals to an old windmill housing an abandoned puppet theater.
16) Factotum
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(David M.),Monster blood tattoo volume pt. 3
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth.
17) The road home
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Jenny Springer is the local historian for the Amish community in Apple Creek, Ohio. As a child, Jenny was rescued from a terrible snowstorm, and when no trace of her parents could be found, the Springer family adopted her. Since then she has had a burning desire in her heart to find out who she really is. When a drifter, John Hershberger, comes to town looking for his own roots, Jenny gets serious in her search for her long-lost parents. As she opens...
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Max Blythe no longer has his bad boy reputation. Yet when Max bumps into ex-fling Lena Philips, there are still fireworks flying between them! While their reunion is thrilling, finding a baby on the doorstep of Max's manor is astonishing. Now Max, whose life has given him every reason to be aloof and brooding, and sunshine personified Lena must find a way to give this newborn a new start--together!
19) Dead silence
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English
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An investigative genealogist and a NYPD detective find their work intertwining in the case of a mute child.
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