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When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
2) Loving Jenna
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Wells Landing volume 9
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English
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In this new novel set in the beloved Oklahoma Amish community of Wells Landing, three generations of women challenge themselves and each other to make a fresh start in faith, family-and love.
Jenna Burkhart is tired of being "special" and hearing about what she can't do. Even though she suffered a head injury in a childhood swimming accident, she wants a life of her own just like any Amish woman. But now that she, her mamm, and her mammi have moved...
5) Lottery
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English
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Having learned essential life skills from his grandmother that helped him overcome his low IQ, Perry finds himself without a caregiver at the age of thirty-one and wins a fortune by playing the lottery, a windfall that brings him more family than he everwanted.
10) Hey Jude
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Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Penny struggles to balance her last year of high school, a new romance, and looking after Jude, her sister with mental health issues.
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"'How many brothers and sisters do you have?' It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it. Three of the McKercher children lived at home. The fourth, her youngest brother, Bill, did not. Bill was born with Down syndrome. When he was two and a half, his parents took him to the Ontario Hospital School in Smiths Falls and left him there. Like thousands of other families,...
14) The silver gate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Elric and his mother secretly care for his mentally disabled sister, Wynn, whom the villagers consider a changeling, until their father threatens to sell her, so they flee into the forest, even though Elric does not share her belief in magic.
16) A Christmas home
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McCray Family novels volume 2
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Crown Publishers
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English
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Clarion Books is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Teagan leaves her flesh and bones behind to join Finn in hunting the uncanny creatures that have spilled from Mag Mell into Chicago, realizing that she must destroy the Dark Man and his minions once and for all to save her remaining loved ones.
20) Of mice and men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
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