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Author
Series
Irish Country volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delighted to be offered a permanent position with crusty Dr. O'Reilly, Dr. Barry Laverty confronts a crisis when his reputation is threatened by the unexpected death of one of his patients.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
Author
Language
English
Description
Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations! "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning
his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on
ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash;
till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all
over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was
moving in the air above and in the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This tale follows the adventures of Anne, a young, red-haired orphan who has spent her entire childhood being passed around from one foster home to the next. Until one day, she is sent to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert by mistake. While trying to adopt a boy to help work on their farm, the Cuthbert's ended up with Anne, who they could not send away after learning that an evil woman in town was attempting to adopt her. Anne gains many friendships in...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Series
Irish country novel volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the chilly weather can't stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are making plans to start a new life together, but also the love of an ailing pensioner for a faithful dog that's gone missing, the love of the local gentry for the...
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl reflects on Christmas at her grandparent's home in the country, with its fresh-cut tree, handmade ornaments, gifts from Santa, and special church services.
13) Barn dance!
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy trying to sleep is lured downstairs by the sounds of dancing coming from the barn, only to find that there really is a certain magic to the night air.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-red hair and an unstoppable imagination, eleven-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Ballybucklebo, Ireland, young doctor Barry, eagerly awaiting the arrival of his first child, and his fellow physicians, including a fledgling doctor, deal with a range of medical issues while still finding time to share the comforting joys and pleasures of this very special place.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
18) Summer color!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Two rambunctious children take off on a backyard adventure through the wonders and colors of summer.
20) Foxfire
Publisher
Anchor Press/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English