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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is...
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Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters whorun the streets of New York City.
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English
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When the Bergamots move from a comfortable upstate college town to New York City, they are not quite sure how they will adapt, or what to make of the strange new world of well-to-do Manhattan. Soon, though, Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large New York university, and Liz, who has traded in her academic career to oversee the lives of their children, is hectically ferrying young Coco around town. Fifteen-year-old Jake is gratefully...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
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All-of-a-kind family volume 3
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English
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The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle finds romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
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English
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"When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus--at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice--ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past--she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition...
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Rebekah Roberts novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community...
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"In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island's most diverse and precarious neighborhoods, Coolidge. The three boys are an inseparable if conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Nevertheless, Youssef is keeping a secret: he sees...
11) Close relations
Author
Publisher
Lippincott & Crowell
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
270 p.
Language
English
12) Quit it
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
171 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics, such as coughing and head jerking, sixth-grader Carrie must cope with the embarrassment and strain of various reactions from family, friends, and strangers.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
135 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxie is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
14) California time
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rosy Cole volume 10
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rosy plans to show her small-town cousin all the amazing sights that make New York City such a great place to live, but things do not go as she had hoped.
17) Keeping score
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
202 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
19) Charming Billy
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Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered to comfort his widow, and to pay their respects to one of the last great romantics. As they trade tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and consuming sorrow, a complex portrait emerges of an enigmatic man, a loyal friend, a beloved husband, an incurable alcoholic. Alice McDermott's striking novel, Charming Billy, is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial love, of the way good intentions...
20) House of sports
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through a series of triumphs and tragedies at home, at school, and on the basketball court, plus time reluctantly spent with his elderly grandmother, twelve-year-old Jim Malone learns that there is a lot more to life than basketball.
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