Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Formats
Description
Broken, smashed and stomped in the mud
That's how Charlotte Bell's heart ended up the last time she let her emotions heat up on a nanny assignment. So taking a new position in frigid Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, might be just what Charlotte needs in order to heal up—and chill out. This time, she's determined to be intrepid and courageous. She's even read all fifty-six original Nancy Drew books in preparation. Unfortunately,...
That's how Charlotte Bell's heart ended up the last time she let her emotions heat up on a nanny assignment. So taking a new position in frigid Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, might be just what Charlotte needs in order to heal up—and chill out. This time, she's determined to be intrepid and courageous. She's even read all fifty-six original Nancy Drew books in preparation. Unfortunately,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
One month after their parents' disappearance, the third-grade Huit octuplets deal with a malfunctioning refrigerator and try to win the love of the only boy in their class at Valentine's Day, while Dorinda discovers her special power and gift.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Huit octuplets, each of whom has now discovered her power and received her gift, finally learn where their parents are, but before they can attempt a rescue they must face the Other Eights and a very scary aunt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
With the arrival of August, Zinnia, the youngest of the Huit octuplets, eagerly anticipates getting her power and gift, both of which hold big surprises that are revealed to the sisters on their eighth birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Rebecca demonstrates superhuman strength she brings unwanted publicity to the Huit octuplets, but much greater danger is in store when she acquires the power to shoot fire from her fingertips.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1969, as her own family is falling apart, ten-year-old Mamie finds comfort in conducting a one-sided correspondence with the least famous astronaut heading toward the moon on Apollo 11.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In an offbeat alternate universe romantic comedy, Daisy, an underachieving, 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars and follows a lifelong dream of going to London and meeting Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize Daisy's station in life until after she and Charles have fallen in love.
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Delilah "Baby" Sampson has had her share of addictions. Her latest is Jimmy Choos shoes, but on her salary, $700 a pair is a stretch, which leads to another obsession: gambling. Baby hits the casinos and discovers that she's a natural-born high-roller. Every win puts her closer to those beloved Choos. And as the '21s' keep dropping, so do the men, right at her feet. But for a girl who never knows when to fold'em, gambling and casino guys are not healthy...