Kierstin Holman's Library
Rossview Middle
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780143036401 | The Secret Life Of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | "The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed." So begins the story of Lily Melissa Owens, a plucky girl, rich in humor despite heart wrenching circumstances. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, her entire life has been shaped around one devastating, though blurred, memory- the afternoon her mother was killed. Four at the time, she remembers innocently picking up the gun. And, she has her father's eyewitness account of the gun firing. People remind her it was an accident, yet she's inhabited by a torturous guilt. Lily's only real companion is Rosaleen, a tender, but fierce-hearted black woman who cooks, cleans and acts as her "stand-in mother." South Carolina in 1964 is a place and time of seething racial divides. When violence explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is desperate, not only to save Rosaleen, but to flee a life she can no longer endure. Calling upon her colorful wits and uncommon daring, she breaks Rosaleen out of jail and the two of them take off, runaway-fugitives conjoined in an escape that quickly turns into Lily's quest for the truth about her mother's life. Following a trail left ten years earlier, Lily and Rosaleen end up in the home of three bee-keeping sisters. No ordinary women, the sisters revere a Black Madonna and tend a unique brand of female spirituality that reaches back to the time of slavery. As Lily's life becomes deeply entwined with theirs, she is irrevocably altered. In a mesmerizing world of bees and honey, amid the strength and power of wise women, Lily journeys through painful secrets and shattering betrayals, finding her way to the single thing her heart longs for most. Learn more about Sue Monk Kidd at SueMonkKidd.com.Richmond Times-Dispatch...an Oprah pick just waiting to happen. | Penguin Books |
| 9780618150748 | The Sherwood Ring | Elizabeth Marie Pope | newly Orphaned Peggy Grahame Is Caught Off-guard When She First Arrives At Her Family’s Ancestral Estate. Her Eccentric Uncle Enos Drives Away Her Only New Acquaintance, Pat, A Handsome British Scholar, Then Leaves Peggy To Fend For Herself. But She Is Not Alone. The House Is Full Of Mysteries—and Ghosts. Soon Peggy Becomes Involved With The Spirits Of Her Own Colonial Ancestors And Witnesses The Unfolding Of A Centuries-old Romance Against A Backdrop Of Spies And Intrigue And Of Battles Plotted And Foiled. History Has Never Been So Exciting—especially Because The Ghosts Are Leading Peggy To A Romance Of Her Own! new York Times Book Review Notable Bookthe Complicated Strands Of Mystery, History, And Love Are Drawn Skillfully Together Into A Bright Pattern, Embroidered With Comedy And The Whole Done With Real Style. | HMH Books for Young Readers |
| 9780440961321 | The Slave Dancer | Fox, Paula | Laurel-Leaf Books | |
| The Summer I Turned Pretty | ||||
| The Sun Also Rises | ||||
| 9780156029438 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | A Dazzling Novel In The Most Untraditional Fashion, This Is The Remarkable Story Of Henry Detamble, A Dashing, Adventuresome Librarian Who Travels Involuntarily Through Time, And Clare Abshire, An Artist Whose Life Takes A Natural Sequential Course. Henry And Clare's Passionate Love Affair Endures Across A Sea Of Time And Captures The Two Lovers In An Impossibly Romantic Trap, And It Is Audrey Niffenegger's Cinematic Storytelling That Makes The Novel's Unconventional Chronology So Vibrantly Triumphant. An Enchanting Debut And A Spellbinding Tale Of Fate And Belief In The Bonds Of Love, The Time Traveler's Wife Is Destined To Captivate Readers For Years To Come. Audrey Niffenegger. Harvest Reading Guide--p. [4] Of Cover. | Harcourt |
| 9780439412810 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. | |
| 9781338831962 | This Is Not A Drill | K.a. Holt | Scholastic | |
| 9781442426719 | To All The Boys I've Loved Before (1) | Han, Jenny | Lara Jean Writes Love Letters To All The Boys She Has Loved And Then Hides Them In A Hatbox Until One Day Those Letters Are Accidentally Sent-- | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780060935467 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | the Unforgettable Novel Of A Childhood In A Sleepy Southern Town And The Crisis Of Conscience That Rocked It, to Kill A Mockingbird Became Both An Instant Bestseller And A Critical Success When It Was First Published In 1960. It Went On To Win The Pulitzer Prize In 1961 And Was Later Made Into An Academy Award-winning Film, Also A Classic. Compassionate, Dramatic, And Deeply Moving, to Kill A Mockingbird Takes Readers To The Roots Of Human Behavior - To Innocence And Experience, Kindness And Cruelty, Love And Hatred, Humor And Pathos. Now With Over 18 Million Copies In Print And Translated Into Forty Languages, This Regional Story By A Young Alabama Woman Claims Universal Appeal. Harper Lee Always Considered Her Book To Be A Simple Love Story. Today It Is Regarded As A Masterpiece Of American Literature.the New Yorkerskilled, Unpretentious And Tototally Ingenuous . . . Tough, Melodramatic, Acute, Funny. | Harper Perennial |
| 9780449704165 | Trouble With Lemons (Fawcett Juniper) | Hayes, Daniel | His real name was Tyler McAllister, but he felt like a lemon. He had allergies and nightmares, and was the only unfamous person in his family. But one night he and a friend went swimming at the forbidden quarry, and Tyler found a dead body. Now he's determined to find out who killed the man and why they're now after him.... Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it. | Fawcett |
| 9780374378486 | Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | is Eternal Life A Blessing Or A Curse?horn Book. . . It Is Rich In Imagery And Punctuated With Light Fillips Of Humor. The Author Manipulates Her Plot Deftly . . . | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 9780312369811 | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secret What if you could live forever? Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older. But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret—and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey. Praise for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: “A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.” —The New York Times “Exciting and excellently written.” —The New York Times Book Review “With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.” —Harper's “Natalie Babbitt's great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. . . . It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.” —The Boston Globe “This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear.” —Entertainment Weekly | Square Fish |
| 9780525555377 | Turtles All the Way Down | John Green | The critically acclaimed, instant #1 bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars “A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control.” —People “A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness.” – NPR John Green, the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. | Penguin |
| 9780316160179 | Twilight | Meyer, Stephenie | When Seventeen-year-old Bella Leaves Phoenix To Live With Her Father In Forks, Washington, She Meets An Exquisitely Handsome Boy At School For Whom She Feels An Overwhelming Attraction And Who She Comes To Realize Is Not Wholly Human. First Sight -- Open Book -- Phenomenon -- Invitations -- Blood Type -- Scary Stories -- Nightmare -- Port Angeles -- Theory -- Interrogations -- Complications -- Balancing -- Confessions -- Mind Over Matter -- The Cullens -- Carlisle -- The Game -- The Hunt -- Goodbyes -- Impatience -- Phone Call -- Hide-and-seek -- The Angel -- An Impasse -- An Occasion. Stephenie Meyer. Megan Tingley Books. | Little Brown |
| 9781338221589 | Twisted Ones, The (Five Nights At Freddy's, Book 2) | Cawthon, Scott | Scholastic | |
| 9781338865127 | Two Degrees | Alan Gratz | When Three Children Endure Separate Climate Change Disasters--a Wildfire In The California Woods, A Close Encounter With A Hungry Polar Bear In Canada, And A Massive Hurricane In Florida--they Emerge From Their Experiences Committed To Changing The World. | |
| 9780064405171 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | "How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!" And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. | Harper Collins |
| 9781565125605 | Water For Elephants: A Novel | Gruen, Sara | Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act—in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival. Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air. | Algonquin Books |
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