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21) 23 minutes
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.
Zoe Mahar has a supernatural ability to jump back in time by twenty-three minutes, and repeat events with up to ten tries. She is on the scene when a bank robbery at Spencerport Savings and Loan goes horrifyingly...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
After killing her husband-a truly terrible man, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done-and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away with it.
"When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage...
24) Don't know tough
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
25) Made of stars
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When eighteen-year-old Hunter Jackson and his half sister, Ashlin, return to their dad's for the first winter in years, they expect everything to be just like the warmer months they'd spent there as kids. And it is -- at first. But Chance, the charismatic and adventurous boy who made their summers epic, is harboring deep secrets. Secrets that are quickly spiraling into something else entirely. The reason they've never met Chance's parents or seen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When domestic violence counselor Dulcie Parker uncovers evidence of a human trafficking ring in the Four Corners area, she's determined to stop it or die trying. With corruption all around her and killers on her trail, Deputy Sheriff Austin Turner's the one person she can trust. But can they work together to expose the crime ring before she becomes the next victim?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.
Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. Residents complain about the nuisance, the strangeness of the birds. But for Leighton, it's no stranger than her house,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain...
Author
Series
Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A young widow returns to her hometown in Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the new schoolteacher holds the key both to the mystery surrounding her father's death--and to her heart"--
Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.
The day after Ellie dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She sways between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death. There's her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years--not since he was a teenager, when...
33) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California...
Author
Description
"ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect... OREN, ten years old, a major Star Wars fan and wise beyond his years. Though Alice is wary, Oren bonds nearly instantly with... MATTIE, a social worker in her fifties who lives in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. Mattie lives alone and is always available, and so she is the person the hotline always...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific. She's come home. Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not her future. Ten years ago, Caroline launched a career in the glamorous fashion world of Manhattan. But her success in New York imploded on a wave of scandal and tragedy, forcing her to flee to the only safe place she knows....
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at work? Sometimes she brings women to the house, other times they have children. Hilda, Katy's mother, disapproves of Gloria. She wonders if these mysterious...
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