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(0)Lauren Baratz-Logsted
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English
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Veteran women's fiction writer Lauren Baratz-Logsted presents the moving story of a family disrupted by fame, perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer. Ever wonder what it must be like to be the younger sibling of someone so popular, princes and presidents are excited to meet him? Mona knows. Or thinks she does. Mona is married to Jack, younger brother to Denny Springer, lead singer for The Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band in the World. Jack...
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Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In 1969, as her own family is falling apart, ten-year-old Mamie finds comfort in conducting a one-sided correspondence with the least famous astronaut heading toward the moon on Apollo 11.
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Sisters eight volume 6
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IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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One sister's story in the series about a set of octuplets, their fantastic adventures, and the quest to solve the mystery of their parents' disappearance . . .
Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no! May is almost over and that means only one thing: Petal's month to discover her gift and her power is about to begin. For most people, like her seven sisters, this would be a good thing. They would look forward to discovering their gift and their power....
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Sisters eight volume 3
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The Sisters Eight are back in a new adventure! This time, Georgia gets her chance to be the hero-if she doesn't completely mess things up!
In the first two installments of the Sisters Eight, we met the sisters (octuplets) and their eight cats. We discovered Mommy and Daddy disappeared (or died) and that to find out what happened to them, each girl must discover her power and gift. Annie and Durinda both found theirs. We also learned that the girls'...
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A fake pregnancy, a real baby, and a madcap adventure… London editor Jane Taylor pretended to be pregnant for months. Now she has rescued an actual abandoned baby-which would have come in handy for keeping up her charade, except that the infant is black and Jane is white. Finally giving up her ruse, Jane comes clean to the people in her life-but she wants to keep this precious little one. To do that, she'll have to battle Social Services and take...
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Sisters eight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters, actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Year's Eve, the girls wait for their mommy to bring them hot chocolate and their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they don't. Mommy and Daddy, that is. They're gone. Poof! Maybe dead-no one knows for sure.
You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own, no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not...
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Sisters eight volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Questions! Questions! Questions! The Sisters Eight have so many questions and so few answers! Luckily, one more month means one more Eight will discover her power and her gift, which means they're one step closer to discovering what happened to Mommy and Daddy on New Year's Eve.
Marcia's month is about to begin. You remember Marcia, right? The sensible one? The one who would never do anything... crazy?
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Sisters eight volume 9
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English
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It's the final book! Each of the Eights has received her power and gift and they even know where Daddy is-inside a snowglobe-shaped Christmas tree ornament. Now all they have to do is get inside the ornament and rescue Daddy. Hopefully, Mommy's in there with him.
For heaven's sake, how are they supposed to shrink all of them (plus the cats!) down to a size small enough to fit in the globe and then actually get inside it? Of course, through magic...
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English
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Has the world's nicest dude bro found happiness at last? Poor Johnny Smith. At age thirty-three, the house painter has been a best man a whopping eight times, when all he's ever really wanted is to be a groom. But despite being everyone's favorite dude, Johnny has yet to find The One. Or even anyone. So when he meets high-powered District Attorney Helen Troy, and falls for her hard, he follows the advice of family and friends. Since Helen seems to...
10) Crazy Beautiful
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English
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In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn't outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.
Then he meets Aurora. The hooks don't scare her. They don't keep her away. In fact, they don't make any difference at all to her.
But to Lucius, they mean everything. They remind...
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English
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When Will and Bet were four, tragic circumstances brought them to the same house, to be raised by a wealthy gentleman as brother and sister. Now sixteen, they've both enjoyed a privileged upbringing thus far. But not all is well in their household. Because she's a girl, Bet's world is contained within the walls of their grand home, her education limited to the rudiments of reading, writing, arithmetic, and sewing. Will's world is much larger. He is...
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What would happen if your parents went missing? Gone! Poof! The Huit sisters, octuplets to be exact, experience just this. Mommy was supposed to bring hot chocolate, and Daddy more wood for the fire. But they're gone!
What are the young girls to do? The Sisters Eight are determined to find out what happened to their parents. Maybe the notes that keep appearing mysteriously behind a loose brick in the fireplace have something to do with it. It's a...
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English
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Dude! The long-awaited sequel to The Bro-Magnet is here! What happens after Happily Ever After? That's what Johnny Smith is about to find out. Having wooed - and won! - the girl of his dreams in The Bro-Magnet, he is ready to take on married life. Finally, Johnny will be the groom. But right off the bat, during the honeymoon, things start to go wrong. And it only gets worse when the newlyweds return home to their new house in Connecticut. Different...
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Jane Taylor is a slightly sociopathic Londoner who wants marriage and a baby in the worst way, and she's willing to go to over-the-top lengths to achieve her dream. When Jane thinks she's pregnant she tells everyone. When it turns out to be a false alarm, she assumes she'll just get pregnant, no one the wiser. But when that doesn't happen, well, of course she does what no one in her right mind would do: Jane decides to fake an entire pregnancy!
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Sisters eight volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters, actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Year's Eve, the girls wait for their mommy to bring them hot chocolate and their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they don't. Mommy and Daddy, that is. They're gone. Poof! Maybe dead-no one knows for sure.
You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own, no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not...
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Sisters eight volume 8
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English
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The penultimate episode in the Sisters Eight saga!
Finally! Zinnia's turn has arrived. The poor girl has been waiting for her time in the spotlight quite long enough. Really, it would be cruel to make her wait any longer. What will her power and her gift be? Will either of them prove to be as much of a doozy as she has been hoping for? There's only one way to find out: Let her story begin. It's finally Zinnia Time!
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Sisters eight volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Rebecca's the tough one, always chastising the other Eights for not bucking up when trouble arises. But how will she fare when it's her turn to face her power?
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English
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Some families you are born into. Some you choose. And some choose you. Four women have little in common other than where they live and the joyous complications of having sisters. Cindy waits for her own life to begin as she sees her sister going in and out of hospitals. Lise has made the boldest move of her life, even as her sister spends every day putting herself at risk to improve the lives of others. Diana is an ocean apart from her sister, but...
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Daisy Silverman has always been obsessed with His Royal Highness, Prince Charles. When the underachieving 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars, she follows her lifelong dream to go to London. Once there, she meets Prince Charles-the real Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize that Daisy's Jewish or that she's spent her life up to the elbows in the wrong kind of toilet water. By the time...
20) Jackie's Jokes
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Sisters eight volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In this humorous series, eight sisters must fend for themselves when their parents strangely vanish. But now they must handle another taxing mystery.
Jackie's turn! Book four in this exciting series!
April has finally arrived. How lucky of Jackie to have such a lovely month to tell her story. It starts off with fun and laughter on April Fool's Day, and then all the beautiful flowers start to bloom and then ... Wait a minute. April fifteenth. That's...