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1) Tidelands
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English
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Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Series
Trixie Belden volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trixie Belden and her friend Honey make several trips to the local marsh in search of herbs and flowers to replace their teacher's plant specimen collection and to look for the pirate treasure that is rumored to be hidden there.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When local business tycoon Maximus Sneer plans to drain the Boggy Marshes dry, twins Sammy and Tammy start protesting the scheme, while two very big monsters are awakened by the drainage, looking for revenge.
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Language
English
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"England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents: practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh, with its deceptive tides, is a beautiful but threatening place. Virginia's new parents' marriage is full of secrets and tensions she doesn't quite understand, and their wealthy neighbor, Max Deering, drops by too often, taking an unwholesome...
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