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2) Night road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...
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New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. The 11-year-old twins she takes in bring her sleepless nights and police visits... and then the girls accuse Mollie of...
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Finally, Rainy Jernagen has the child-filled home she's always wanted! Okay, so she still hasn't found Mr. Right, but the foster kids she's taken in fill her heart almost completely. Then handyman/rancher Nate Del Rio comes knocking, and Rainy starts to wonder if she really can have it all. There's only one problem: Nate doesn't want kids. At all. And nothing Rainy says will change his mind. Of course, she's not going to let that stop her. Not when...
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Cooper Creek volume 1
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Reformed rebel Jackson Cooper thinks he can handle anything-;until a sullen teenage girl appears at his ranch, claiming the impossible. Even though he's not Jade's father, he can't turn her away, knowing she's in need. But he's going to need the helping hand of compassionate schoolteacher Madeline Patton. An unlikely duo with their own secret fears, Jackson and Maddie certainly don't expect the Christmas surprise of instant parenthood. Yet as they...
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"Growing up in the foster system, Quinn O'Meara made a point of never getting involved. When she discovers a crying baby amid a fiery crime scene, she knows she has no choice. Suddenly in way over her head, Quinn turns to the police, unintentionally positioning herself in the crosshairs of a deadly human-trafficking ring. The last time homicide detective Nick Saldano saw Quinn, she was still the young girl he'd shared a foster home with. The girl...
7) What I carry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
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Gallery Books
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"From the author of the international bestselling 'The sweetness of forgetting' comes a novel that's 'Sliding doors' meets 'P.S. I love you'. A woman who lost her husband is ready to move on, but her subconscious won't let her. Is she dreaming of her late husband? Or slipping through to the life she should have had?"--
9) Below zero
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Joe Pickett novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"It begins with a phone message: Tell Sherry April called. And suddenly Joe Pickett's family is shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was murdered six years ago. His daughter Sherry starts to believe there's a chance April is still alive. Joe, however, remains suspicious, especially when he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the caller moves closer, unsettling...
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"Someone will do anything to get federal judge Sidney Logan to throw a trial--even target her six-month-old foster daughter. And it's up to US Deputy Marshal Tanner Wilcox to keep Sidney and little Lilly safe in the Colorado Rockies. But with danger finding them at every turn, there might be a mole in the courthouse...and trusting anyone could prove lethal." --Provided by publisher.
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Unmapped chronicles volume 4
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"In this final adventure in the Unmapped Kingdoms, a young orphan rises up to stop the evil harpy Morg once and for all"--
13) Picture this
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"Ethan lives in a foster home, struggling to put his life on the right track. Involved in a photography program for at-risk kids, he finds himself threatened again and again by someone who wants his camera. What does Ethan know? And what is on his camera that someone is willing to kill for? Struggling to stay out of trouble and solve the mystery, he discovers he has all the answers. He just has to figure out the questions."--Page 4 of cover.
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"After making a new life for herself and her infant daughter in Rose Mountain, widow Maggie Bennett thought they were safe. Getting caught in the middle of a bank robbery changes everything--and introduces her to policeman Reese Kirkpatrick. He seems to be everything her abusive late husband wasn't ... just the man she needs to help her through the growing list of sinister occurrences. But Reese has his own baggage--and when a shocking betrayal puts...
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"Rancher Joe Lawson prefers his own company--until he rescues Daisy West and her twin foster babies from a car accident. When Daisy returns the favor by announcing their fake engagement to save him from his meddling family, Joe's quiet life turns upside down. Now he's engaged to his boss's daughter ... and if he's not careful, this cowboy might just fall hat over heels for her."--Amazon.com.
16) A list of cages
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Adam, a high school senior, rescues Julian, a freshman, from an abusive situation"--
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who...
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"Calla Hammond has always been a loner-a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition. When doctors discover her immune system holds the key to curing cancer, she struggles to advance lifesaving research in a world that sees her only as a means to an end. Yet along the way, Calla gains the one thing she has always longed for: a chosen family. When a group of unscrupulous people join forces to sell Calla's blood to...
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As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage...
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