Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a father dedicated to education reform, and grounded in her radical beliefs on the role of women in society, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature that explores themes of family, death, and perseverance.
Rose Campbell is a young girl when her parents pass away. Orphaned, she is taken to the...
2) Frozen stiff
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cousins Cody and Derek take a kayak trip in Alaska and find themselves battling the raw elements of an untamed wilderness.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Rosie Thomas captivates readers once again with this sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal set against a historical backdrop spanning two world wars.
Born within hours of each other, cousins Clio Hirsh and Grace Stretton were raised as sisters in the innocent days before the Great War. But jealousy and bitterness simmer beneath the surface of their friendship as Grace enchants all those who meet her, leaving shy and quiet...
5) The keep
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered
...Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Portia is ecstatic when she learns that her parents bought Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along of the edge of Gone-away Lake. Vacant for years, Portia and her cousin Julian explore the ghostly home with the help of elderly neighbors Mr. Payton and Mrs. Cheever.. Both children excited to uncover the secrets the old home hides.
Author
Series
Dragon keepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Cousins Jesse and Daisy always knew they would have a magical adventure, but they are not prepared when the "thunder egg" Jesse has found turns out to be a dragon egg that is about to hatch.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noem? Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She?s not sure what she will find?her cousin?s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noem? knows little about the region. Noem? is also an unlikely rescuer: She?s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lilian Quick has looked up to her cousin Florence her whole life. Florence is everything Lilian is not--brave, confident, quick to find adventure and American. The women have been out of touch for years due to a family rift, but Lilian, childless, single and self-employed as a pet portraitist, has been watching Florence for years. Florence is now Internet-famous as Eleven Novak, the face of a compelling new feminine lifestyle empowerment brand. When...
11) Premeditated
Author
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary thriller about the lengths one girl will go in order to get revenge on the boy who ruined her cousin's life"--
12) Secret lives
Author
Series
Ethel Fiona Crestwater volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...
14) 100 cupboards
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
15) Knight's castle
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
16) The Astro outlaw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
17) Mary McScary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mary McScary loves to scare people, but nothing she thinks up seems to bother her cousin, Harry McScary--but Mary will not give up trying.
18) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
20) Dandelion fire
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request