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1) Signal fires
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"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers, to her horror, that her mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving...
3) The nix
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"-- Publisher.
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In a quirky farmhouse, seventy-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life - until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy's rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to re-examine the choices he's made since his wife's death, three decades ago, in a senseless accident that haunts him still....
5) Maine
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Commencement and The Engagements introduces four unforgettable women and the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to Maine and to each other.
"Rich and exhilarating ... You don't want the novel to end."—The New York Times Book Review
For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in...
"Rich and exhilarating ... You don't want the novel to end."—The New York Times Book Review
For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in...
6) Perla
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English
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A tale set in post-dictatorship Buenos Aires finds privileged Correa safeguarding the interests of her family by hiding her father's military past from others until an uninvited visitor forces her to confront the unease she has suppressed her entire life.
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