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1) Skylark
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
620L
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Historical Fiction
500 Books Before Middle School
500 Books Before Middle School
Summary
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Series
Sarah plain and tall volume 1
Lexile Measure
650L
Appears on these lists
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Historical Fiction
500 Books Before Middle School
Newbery Medal Collection
Newbery Medal Winners
500 Books Before Middle School
Newbery Medal Collection
Newbery Medal Winners
Summary
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Author
Series
Sarah plain and tall volume 4
Pub. Date
c2004
Lexile Measure
420L
Formats
Summary
Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out her feelings and understand that Sarah will always love her.
6) Home
Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
"Spanning 54 countries and 120 locations, Home captures the Earth's most amazing landscapes in a new and astonishing light, showcasing its incomparable beauty and acknowledging its vulnerability to change" --Container.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Patty Hewes is the nation's most revered and most reviled litigator, and her bright, ambitious protaegaee Ellen Parsons become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher, one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney, Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Patty Hewes is the nation's most revered and most reviled litigator, and her bright, ambitious protaegaee Ellen Parsons become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher, one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney, Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs.
10) The wife
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Series
Pub. Date
c2002, 1992
Summary
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again. Skylark: When Sarah's beloved family is tested first by nature and then by a separation, they discover that home is not a piece of land, but a place within the heart. Winter's end: Having abandoned his family decades ago, Palance returns to the farm to reconcile his relationship with his...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Summary
101 dalmatians: Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita settle into their owners' flat in London to become proud parents of 15 precocious pups. It's one big happy dog family until the evil Cruella De Vil kidnaps the puppies, along with every other Dalmatian in the city. It's up to Pongo and Perdita to unite the entire animal population in a mission to help the courageous pups outsmart their captor. 102 dalmatians: Stars Oddball, the spotless dalmatian puppy...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
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Summary
Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately deciding both her own future and that of the human race....
17) Paradise road
Pub. Date
c2000
Summary
Fact-based recounti ng of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
18) Air Force One
Pub. Date
[1998]
Summary
An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
The U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists....
19) Crooked house
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
