Kathleen McInerney
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside--burned alive--Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish...
42) The Santa suit
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
43) Words on fire
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
44) Sunset beach
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach - it comes with a twist. Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried - to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In this riveting new thriller in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling series, Kate Burkholder races against the clock to find a missing Amish girl. An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges headlong into a case that quickly becomes a race against the clock. She knows the longer the girl is missing, the more likely a tragic outcome. The family of...
46) 13 gifts
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
47) 11 birthdays
Author
Series
Formats
Description
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
48) Silverlicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Pinkalicious loses her sweet tooth she turns to the Tooth Fairy for help.
49) Graceful
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Angelina D'Angelo has left town to see the world. It's now Grace's turn to use her magic to protect the people of Willow Falls, and she is up to the challenge. This is her destiny, after all. But destiny is a funny thing - it doesn't always behave the way you'd expect it to.
50) Goldilicious
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl and her brother play with her imaginary gold-horned unicorn that can float on water, fly, and turn herself into a fairy princess.
51) Aqualicious
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.
52) Emeraldalicious
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
53) Fish in a Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
A New York Times Bestseller!
The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.”
Ally...
The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.”
Ally...
54) Purplicious
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
55) Pray for silence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.
56) Pinkalicious
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl who is obsessed with the color pink eats so many pink cupcakes that she herself turns pink.
57) Gone missing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Investigating the disappearance of an Amish teenager, chief of police Kate Burkholder and state agent John Tomasetti stumble on a dead body at the same time another girl goes missing, and later discover sinister links to numerous cold cases.
58) Paint the wind
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
59) Breaking silence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
When Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, along with Solly's brother Abel, are found dead in a hog pit, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the gruesome scene. Once again teaming up with Agent John Tomasetti, Kate reveals that the death may not have been accidental, but one of the most horrific hate crimes ever to befall the Amish community of Painter's Creek.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Little Red Hen works hard-all alone-to turn her wheat seed into flour, while the goose gossips, the dog naps, and the cat preens. But when her lazy friends smell the fresh bread baking, they're eager to help her eat it! In this easy-to-read rendition, even the youngest listeners will enjoy the classic folktale about the hard work and its tasty reward.