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81) The haunted
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house. Clean slate. That's what Hendricks Becker-O'Malley's parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Comedian Jamie Grimm, accompanied by Uncle Frank, New Aunt Flora, and friends, circles the globe as host of regional competitions, then competes himself in the Planet's Funniest Kid Worldwide contest.
Author
Series
Birthright volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jules is starting third grade, but her new teacher seems a little strange, she has to choose and research a famous person for the class wax museum project, and rehearsals for the sitcom she is in are harder than ever--especially since the TV show is about to air." -- Provided by publisher.
85) Losing spring
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caroline Brady is the daughter of a very conservative TSA agent and former military brat, Morgan Brady. Her mother Linsey Brady is a descendant of the Sutherland real estate family. Their organized, suburban life in Colonie, NY is rigorously regulated and leaves little room for deviation from the norm. When Linsey, Morgan, and Caroline attend the wake of their neighbor Mr. Gleeson, they meet his charming daughter Natalie 'Nattie' Gleeson, who works...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 936 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Reagan family dynamics continue to shift as they deal with everything from gambling and drugs to kidnapping and murder: Jamie (Will Estes) wrestles with his feelings for his new partner; Erin (Bridget Moynahan) and Jack (Peter Hermann) work to figure out their personal relationship; and Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Frank (Tom Selleck) clash over an internal investigation of Danny's techniques. As the Reagans faces off against the FBI, the mob,...
87) Infested
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before senior year, and Manny Rivera has just moved from Texas to a luxury condo in the Bronx, New York. After Manny strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mr. Mueller, the building's exterminator, he comes to the terrifying realization that Mr. Mueller actually died decades ago in a fire exactly where Manny's new building is located. A fire that Mueller set. Now, Manny must rescue his family from a deranged specter.
88) The missing girl
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
89) Pride and glory
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen and widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Centers on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal that happens to involve his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy, but the entire NYPD.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 911 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season eight, Danny Reagan deals with the aftermath of a tragic accident involving his family, and NY Police Commissioner Frank Reagan clashes with the new interim mayor. Also, officers Jamie Reagan and Eddie are back as partners when they test the waters going undercover, and NY Asst. District Attorney Erin Reagan continues to serves as the legal compass for her siblings and father.
91) Gingersnap
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
92) Masterpiece
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
93) Wild girl
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
94) Act cool
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York. There is only one problem: His conservative parents won't accept that he is transgender. And to stay with his aunt in the city, August must promise them he won't transition. Convinced he can play the part his parents want while acting cool and confident in the company of his talented new friends, August find that the roles he is playing...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
A writer discovers a secret that throws her family and their small southern town into turmoil Raised in the waning days of the Jim Crow South, Grace Truscott has a unique perspective on race. Her father was a senator from Georgia whose liberalism sparked controversy during the civil rights movement, and who after his death becomes a hero in their small hometown. When she begins writing his biography, no one in her family expects anything surprising...
98) Game
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This emotional debut by Randy Susan Meyers tells of two sisters torn apart by domestic tragedy. When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the sisters grow into adulthood, they find the ghosts of their past are difficult to outrun.