Madeleine L'Engle
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Series
Time quintet volume 3
Time quartet volume Bk. 4
Time quartet volume no. 3
[Wrinkle in time series ; v. 2]
Time quartet volume Bk. 4
Time quartet volume no. 3
[Wrinkle in time series ; v. 2]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Mad Dog Branzillo.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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One night, thirteen-year-old Meg Murry meets an eccentric new neighbor, Mrs Whatsit, who refers to something called a tesseract. She later finds out it is a scientific concept her father was working on before his mysterious disappearance. The following day, Meg, her child genius brother Charles, and fellow schoolmate Calvin visit Mrs Whatsit's home, where the equally strange Mrs Who and the unseen voice of Mrs Which promise to help Meg find and rescue...
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Series
Time quintet volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons - actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying,...
5) Many waters
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Series
Time quintet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
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"This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut. In a selection of eighteen stories discovered by one of L'Engle's granddaughters, we see how L'Engle's personal experiences and abiding faith informed the creation of her many cherished works. Some of these stories have never been published;...
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Series
Austin family books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough -- what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City....
11) Troubling a star
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Series
Austin family books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Vicky Austin gets a free trip to Antarctica to see Adam Eddington, she can't believe her luck. But after meeting her fellow travelers, she finds out some of them are not what they seem and that her trip into adventure is becoming a journey into icy danger.
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Series
O'Keefe family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simón Bolívar.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Seven-year-old Vicky Austin recounts the events of the twenty-four days before Christmas, as she prepares for her role as an angel in the Christmas Pageant and prays that her mother will not be in the hospital for Christmas having a new baby.
15) Camilla
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
16) The small rain
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Series
Description
Portrays the events of Katherine Forrester Vigneras's early life and reveals her struggle to cope with the tragic death of her mother, while pursuing her goal to become a concert pianist.
17) Meet the Austins
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Series
Austin family books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The story of a country doctor's family and their reaction to having Maggie, a spoiled orphan, come to live with them. Told by the 12-year-old daughter
18) Ilsa: a novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A woman marries into an upper-class southern family.
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Pub. Date
1971
Description
A young British bride is caught up in her new family's complicated history in this atmospheric novel set in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she's joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Reniers' rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family. As she tries to settle into her new life, Stella...