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1. Tumble
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Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
Description:
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela RamÃrez reaches out to her estranged biological father - who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador - and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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Language:
English
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Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she...
Author:
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In order for Tumble Wilson and Blue Montgomery to fix their ancestors' mistakes and banish the bad luck that has followed them around for all of their lives, they must face Munch, the mysterious golden alligator who cast the curse centuries ago.
4. Tumble
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Publisher:
Orchard Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
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Publisher:
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to. When Adele Delaney and her daughter, Violet, go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling with the impending death of his ill ex-wife, he sends Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund instead. Stonechild has been trying to adapt to life as her young cousin Dawn's guardian, and even though Gundersund has offered support,...
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Publisher:
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
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Ellie's grandmother doesn't want her around the farm, but times are tough, and her salesman father can't take her on the road. Ellie's challenge is to break through her grandmother's isolation and find kinship among strangers.
8. Tumbledown
Publisher:
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
A woman, struggling to move on years after the death of her folk singer husband, strikes a deal to co-write his biography with a pop culture scholar and, unexpectedly, this endeavor opens up a completely new chapter in her life.
9. Tumbleweeds
Publisher:
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
Description:
After her latest failed relationship, free-spirited, four-times married Mary Jo Walker hits the road and heads West with her 12-year-old daughter Ava in search of greener pastures.
12. Tumble bunnies
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2005
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 580L
Language:
English
Description:
Feeling untalented in the team sports scheduled for his school's Sports Spectacular, Clyde the rabbit develops his own event, a freestyle tumbling routine with a dazzling move called the "twirly burly."
13. Tumbledown Manor
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Language:
English
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"The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the deceitful ex-husband she just left behind in New York...well,...
14. Tumbleweed Baby
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
17. Tumble & Fall
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Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Description:
A novel about the end of days full of surprising beginnings The world is living in the shadow of oncoming disaster. An asteroid is set to strike the earth in just one week's time; catastrophe is unavoidable. The question isn't how to save the world-the question is, what to do with the time that's left? Against this stark backdrop, three island teens wrestle with intertwining stories of love, friendship and family-all with the ultimate stakes at hand....
18. Tumble and Fall
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Publisher:
Jennifer Anderson
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Albany Mathews is focused on winning a newspaper scholarship and getting accepted to Webster University. When she's given a journalism assignment likely to help her accomplish her goals but finds out Keegan will be her photographer for the project, will she runaway from his sexy smile and blue eyes, allowing history to repeat.Keegan O'Shae can't understand why Albany hates him. But he's determined to not let her dash away tactics to ruin what he loves...
20. Tumble Tower
Author:
Publisher:
Orchard Books
Pub. Date:
c1993
Language:
English
Description:
A very messy princess in a very tidy royal family has the opportunity to prove that there are advantages to not being neat.