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Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The truth could cost her everything.... Olivia Mott didn't intend to lie. Somehow, it just happened. And wasn't it all Lady Charlotte's fault anyway? Now Olivia's position as assistant chef at Pullman's elegant Hotel Florence is dependant upon her keeping her secrets. And sometimes lies have a way of leading to other lies. Should Olivia admit her real past and accept the consequences or keep quiet in order to preserve her comfortable new circumstances?...
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
Follett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
223 p. col. map (on lining papers) 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Southern Illinois is a place of mixed emotions as the American Civil War erupts. For the Creightons, the war lures two sons to the Union army and one to the Confederacy, leaving 10-year-old Jethro to care for the family farm. As the war rages, Jethro does whatever he can to learn about the fates of his brothers, while the Creighton family faces its own danger. Some townspeople can't forgive the Creightons for having a rebel son-and they're willing...
4) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
5) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Series
Left behind volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After millions of people around the world vanish in one moment, in what many claim to be the Rapture, Rayford Steele begins a search for the truth amidst global chaos.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Evie Blackwell arrives in Carin, Illinois, it's to help launch a new task force dedicated to reexamining unsolved crimes across the state. Spearheading this trial run, she will work with the sheriff's department on a couple of its most troubling missing-persons cases. As she reexamines old evidence to pull out a few tenuous new leads, she unearths a surprising connection... possibly to a third cold case. Evie's determined to solve the cases...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...