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(0)Judy Blundell
Author
Language
English
Description
"On Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband, Mike, and the couple's sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Jem, are packing up the last bits of their household in preparation for the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan. It is what Jem calls 'the summer bummer'; her parents own a beautiful house that they have renovated by hand from top to bottom, but which they can only afford to keep by...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.