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Publisher:
Nimbus
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Before she became the "The Giantess from Nova Scotia" and travelled the globe with notorious showman P. T. Barnum, Anna Swan was a young girl growing up near the rural town of Tatamagouche, desperately trying to fit into a world for which she was literally too big. In her debut middle grade novel-in-verse, award-winning author Sidura Ludwig imagines a pivotal period in Anna's childhood, as she struggled to find acceptance in a community that saw her...
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Publisher:
Enslow Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
460L
Language:
English
Description:
Maddie Dragonette doesn't like people. A loner, she prefers to be among the rare plants she grows in her greenhouse, plants that can cause great pain. When Maddie doesn't get a part in the school play, her anger grows as wild as her nasty plants. What happens when anger and hate grow out of control?
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Publisher:
dandyahuruonyebooks.com
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Right, gather 'round, little explorers, and listen closely! Imagine a world turned topsy-turvy, a place where growing up means growing down. That's my world, you see. I'm Esmeralda, and I've been on the most peculiar journey, a grand, giggle-filled adventure into the land of 'Wrinkles in Reverse: The Girl Who Grew Younger'. From playground paradoxes to the hilarious chaos of reverse babysitting, my life has been a whirlwind of wonder.You might wonder,...
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Publisher:
Seventh Star Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Danielle "Danni" is a young girl who attends first grade and lives in a house with her mother. During the summer her best friend and constant companion Shawn, who lives next door leaves for summer camp. With no one to play with, Danni spends the majority of her time on her computer tablet. Danni's mother insists she do an outdoor activity, and Danni decides to grow sunflowers and make her first attempt at gardening. Danni learns many wonderful lessons...
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Publisher:
Mila Sharma
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Are you a victim of abuse? Do you let it consume you because you do not know how to deal with it? Child abuse happens more frequently than anyone would like to admit. Victims are often left feeling shame, guilt, or grief for a situation that they had no control over in the first place. We should no longer swallow what happened to us as children whether it be from physical, sexual, emotional, mental, or other abuses to protect someone else. We need...
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Publisher:
Pelican Publishing
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
Description:
Throughout the compelling true story of Della Raye Rogers, her determination, strength, and faith stand as testaments of the enduring resilience of the human spirit against adversity. For twenty years, Della Raye lived at the Partlow State Asylum for Mental Deficients in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Left there by her uncle in 1929 at the age of four, along with her mother, aunt, and brother, she would know her mother only as another threat the attendants...
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Publisher:
Blue Mountain Press
Pub. Date:
[2003]
Language:
English
Description:
Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the world's first novel. Ada Augusta Byron, who became the world's first computer programmer way back in 1843. Miranda Stuart, who disguised herself as a man for her entire life to become England's first female doctor. Angelina and Sarah Moore Grimke, two sisters who were among the first women to publicly speak out against slavery and to fight for women's rights in America. These are just a few of the remarkable women you'll...
10. Little women
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Series:
Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
11. Don't let go
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Fifteen years ago, two teenagers were mysteriously found dead by the old railroad tracks in a small affluent town in New Jersey. One of them was Nap Dumas' twin, Leo, and the other, the town's sheriff's daughter. Most people concluded it a double suicide, others, just didn't buy it. Nap has dedicated his life to finding out what really happened that summer and when his missing ex-girlfriend's fingerprints show up at a crime scene, he's thrown into...
12. Northanger Abbey
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Series:
Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand and forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she allows the Gothic novels she's obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Determined to...
13. Sworn to silence
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Series:
Kate Burkholder volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found on her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.
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Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 660L
Language:
English
Description:
Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable ... until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't seen since she was a little girl. When Emma arrives...
15. Big sky country
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Series:
Parable Montana volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
No one writes Western romance better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller!
Let her take you to the town of Parable, Montana...
The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father...until now. Suddenly, Slade has inherited half of Whisper Creek Ranch, one of the most prosperous in
...16. The savage heart
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Language:
English
Description:
Tess Meredith and Raven Following grew up on the beautiful, wild Montana plains. But their friendship and love were doomed by Raven's Sioux heritage…and his departure from the land of his people. In Chicago, he built a new life, haunted by thoughts of the lovely, spirited young girl he'd left behind. Until she arrived back in his world -- bringing with her the past he'd tried to bury. But Tess had changed, too. She'd matured into a woman, and was...
17. Serendipity
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Series:
Serendipity volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
He's from the wrong side of the tracks. She lived in the house on the hill. Now their fortunes have reversed…but their long-ago attraction still burns. From high school golden girl to wife of a high-powered New York attorney, Faith Harrington lived the dream. Until divorce and her father's imprisonment for fraud left her with almost nothing. Now she's back in her hometown to redesign her life, and not every face is friendly. Least of all the town...
18. Main Street
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Description:
An enormous commercial and critical success on its first publication in 1920, Main Street - regarded by many as Sinclair Lewis's best novel - delivers a scathing satire on the American dream, and is invaluable as a document of pre-Prohibition Middle America.
19. Thumbelina
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Language:
English
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A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
Author:
Series:
Best wishes volume 2
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Tired of being the middle sister, eleven-year-old Addie Asante uses a magical bracelet to switch places with her thirteen-year-old sister and discovers that being older is not necessarily easier--and worse, her baby sister is now living as Addie.