Caroline B. Cooney
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. From international bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte/Laurel Leaf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press/Waterbrook
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
5) Burning up
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After rescuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.