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41) Leaving Paradise
Author
Series
Leaving paradise novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.
43) Verdi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
44) Old heart
Author
Formats
Description
"Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
45) Kit's wilderness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
Author
Formats
Description
Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. Waiting to be rescued, she wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? Only her best friend, Elsie, believes her; everyone else thinks Florence is just confused. But as truths are revealed, the women find out that some memories...
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 3
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.
51) Being Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee.
54) My Jim: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sadie Watson fell in love with a young man named Jim, a young slave boy who excaped captivity with a white boy named Huck Finn. Sadie now relives her life as she describes to her daughter the risks of loving.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
57) Belle Cora
Author
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
In 1838, Arabella Godwin and her brother, Lewis, are orphaned and sent to live on their aunt's desolate farm in upstate New York. Time and again she will be broken and remade. She will bear a gambler's child, build a fortune, commit murder, leave a trail of aliases in her wake and sacrifice almost everything for the man whose love she cannot bear to lose. Her destiny takes her to Gold Rush California... where she disappears.
59) Mind's eye
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
Author
Pub. Date
c2019
Description
Joel lives in a nursing home, and he's not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up with life and begins to plan a way out when his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, moves in and turns the nursing-home community upside down.
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