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Author
Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kit has grown up on the island of Barbados, loved and pampered by her grandfather. But after his death, Kit must leave. It's not proper for a sixteen-year-old girl to live by herself. She's heard stories about her aunt and uncle who live in the colony of Connecticut. These are the only relatives Kit knows of. So, alone and desperate, she sets sail to live with them in New England. When she arrives, Kit is shocked by the gray, damp landscape, but...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt
Features seven narrators, each with a unique story, and each with a different perspective on what makes their teacher so special. It's the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There's ... Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who's having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend...
3) Reverie
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
Kane Montgomery was found half-dead in the river. He has no memory of what happened and why his life seems so different now. The entire world feels off, reality itself...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs" --
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015, 2017.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow is less than thrilled that her family is moving thousands of miles from civilization to the quiet country town of Ashpot, Connecticut, where she's absolutely certain she'll die of boredom. As if leaving Manhattan and her best friend, Lizzy, the only other member of her elite Detective Mystery Squad, weren't bad enough, Fairday is stuck living in the infamous Begonia House, a creepy old Victorian with dark passageways,...
10) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.
11) Barely breathing
Author
Series
Breathing volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Emma's struggle with an abusive home life came to a heart pounding conclusion in the final chapters of "Reason to Breathe". Now everyone in Weslyn knows Emma's secret, but Carol can't hurt Emma anymore. Some are still haunted by the horror of that night, and some must face the repercussions of their choices. Fans of Rebecca Donovan's debut novel with discover there's still much more to learn about Emma's life."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Breathing volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She's more concerned with feigning perfection while pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises- not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth- at the risk of revealing the terrible...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
16) The Moffats
Author
Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
Author
Language
English
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes through the mail, and plays dominoes with her family in their two-room cabin. She doesnt mind not having electricity or running waterinstead, shes got tall trees, fresh streams, and endless sky. But then her parents divorce, and Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs to live with a grandmother theyve...