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Judy Blundell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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
2018.
Description
"This story opens on Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, where 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, awaiting the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan ... And thus begins the summer when every possible thing that can go wrong in Ruthie's life seems to do so. Her relationship with Mike ... seems about to disappear...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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.
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