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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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In her fictional journal, 11 year old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Ind.heir steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
6) The sisters
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2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate...
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This is a tale set in Kerala, in southern India, in 1969. The lives of twins Rahel and Esthappen are changed forever when their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit. The story unfolds with foreboding and takes on big themes like love, madness, hope and joy.
9) Found
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Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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John Baxter attempts to fulfill his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son, actor Dayne Matthews embarks on a personal search for truth, and theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that may completely transform her life.
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Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume Prequel
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A terrible storm builds in the early morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Karis wedding to Tim Jacobs. Its supposed to be the happiest of days, but Elizabeth cant shake a growing sense of dread. Is the storm a sign? Something bad is about to happen. Elizabeth knows it. Indeed, there are dark currents of conflict and doubt coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Paige Hancock starts junior year with a list of ways to take back her life, rather than spending another year as "The Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned," and finding out that Ryan Chase, her long-term crush, is available again might be the key.
13) Rosetown
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Rosetown books volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
14) Right behind you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
15) Rosetown summer
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Rosetown books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1973, Flora loves living in the quiet town of Rosetown, Indiana, where change is not constant, but life takes a decided turn during the summer between fourth and fifth grades.
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"Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running her family's Indiana farm for eight long years, ever since her husband, John, fell into a comatose state, infected by the infamous "sleeping sickness" devastating families across the country. If only she could trade places with her older sister, June, who is the envy of everyone she meets: blonde and beautiful, married to a wealthy doctor, living in a mansion in St. Paul. And...
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Hope series (Philip Gulley) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Perhaps it's time for a change. After all, his wife...
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Indiana Summers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Since her divorce, Emily Lucretia--affectionately known as the flower lady to the people of Cemetery, Indiana--has been focused on her flower shop and taking care of her aging aunt and uncle. Her love life is hardly the centerpiece of her busy days. Saul Culver, the town's favorite bachelor and owner of the local barbecue joint, has been interested in Emily for a while. But as much as Emily knows about flowers, she can be a little oblivious to her...
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Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 2
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 2
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 2
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 2
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 2
Pub. Date
c2001
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In 1833, twelve-year old Millie Keith finds her faith tested in her new hometown on the frontier in Indiana.
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Life of faith: Millie Keith volume 1
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 1
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 1
(Kersten R.)Life of faith.Millie Keith volume 1
Life of faith Millie Keith volume 1
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
In 1833, twelve-year old Millie Keith finds herself responsible for her seven brothers and sisters as her family moves from Lansdale, Ohio, to an undeveloped prairie town in Indiana.