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1) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and
...Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
4) The brave
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his estranged soldier son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--during which a shocking act of violence ended his parents' idyllic Hollywood union--if he is going to help exonerate Danny.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the imminent future.
6) Bob
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
7) Hysteria
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house"-- Provided by publisher.
When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Now a tough New York City cop suspended for misconduct, she's struggling to get her life in order when a letter arrives informing her she's...
10) Country strong
Author
Series
Painted Pony Creek volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart--a woman he hasn't seen in years--and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition ... Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is [their center of gravity] Jude, ... by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body...
12) The summer swap
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Cecilia Lapthorne always vowed she'd never go back to Dune Cottage. So no one is more surprised than Cecilia to find herself escaping her own seventieth birthday party to return to the remote but beautiful cottage on Cape Cod--a place filled with memories. Some are good--especially memories of the early days with her husband, volatile artist Cameron, before his fame eclipsed their marriage. But then there are the memories she has revealed to no one....
14) Candor
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When 82-year-old Etta walks out of her and embarks on a trip to finally see the ocean, her husband, Otto, must keep wartime memories of his time fighting a war across the ocean at bay. Meanwhile, Russell, who has long held a torch for Etta, leaves his farm to find the woman he loves. Etta's only companion on her cross-country walking trip is James, a coyote who joins her as her as memory, illusion, and reality blur with each passing step.
16) What Rose forgot
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators...
17) The last mile
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...
19) Eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maxwell, convinced his whole town hates him, wishes he had never been born then, realizing he actually is important, tries to get his life back with the help of an elderly neighbor, Reg.