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1) Heat wave
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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A road trip to the summer's hottest music festival does not go as planned for Marissa, Ben, and T when car troubles threaten to leave them stranded on the side of the road in the middle of the desert.
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When they posed for a photo at their high school graduation, they vowed they'd be friends forever, but teenage promises are so easily broken, and now, thirty years later, they're practically strangers. Cici, stuck in a rut, married to a cheating husband. Genie, caring for her ailing father but never getting any thanks. Kate, everyone knows people who look perfect on Instagram are not. And Laurie, the most successful of them all, now tragically gone....
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Romancing the Clarksons volume 1
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The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambéed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted-ass car and her three temperamental siblings, who she hasn't seen in years. When rescue shows up-- six-feet-plus of hot, charming sex on a motorcycle-- Rita's pretty certain she's gone from the frying pan right into the fire... Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation...
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The follow-up novel to the blockbuster “Sideways”, the inspiration for the award-winning film of the same name, starring Paul Giamatti, “Sideways Oregon” tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack.
Seven years have passed since Miles and Jack took their infamous bachelor trip to the Santa Ynez Valley. Miles has written a novel that was made into a wildly successful movie, which changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced,...
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Riding shotgun with a chatty blonde ten years his junior isn't cowboy Kipp Starr's first choice. Despite his attraction to pretty Beatrice Hollister, serious-minded Kipp feels they have little in common. But to show his gratitude for the Hollister family's Christmas hospitality, he agrees to accompany Beatrice on the drive to his home state of Idaho. Beatrice doesn't know if she's more excited about meeting her estranged grandmother--or driving Kipp...
9) Amnesia moon
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A road trip through a post-apocalyptic America where the dreams of some can change reality, the pecking order is according to how lucky you are, and dog meat has become gourmet food. The protagonist, a youth named Chaos, makes the trip with a fur-covered girlfriend to find their past which they cannot remember.
10) Run baby run
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"Darcy Evans is getting married. In a week. To a man who is her childhood dream come true. But a late-night confession from her best friend changes everything and before she even has time to unpack it, she must endure a road trip to the ceremony with her estranged mother, Marja. It was always the two of them against the world...until Marja ghosted Darcy three years ago. No car in the world has enough room for all of their baggage. The drive from Austin...
11) Not fade away
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George Gastin is a Bay Area tow-truck operator who wrecks cars as part of an insurance scam. One of the cars he is hired to demolish is a snow-white Cadillac that was supposed to be a present for the Big Bopper, who died in the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Gastin has a change of heart and takes off in the car, heading for Texas where the Bopper is buried. Armed with a thousand hits of Benzedrine and chased by adversaries...
12) The right thing
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On a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Banks meets the girl who will become her best friend. Skinny, outspoken Starr Dukes and her wandering preacher father may not be accepted by polite society in Jackson, Mississippi, but Annie and Starr are too busy sharing secrets and playing elaborate games of Queen for a Day to care. Then, as suddenly as she appeared in Annie's life, Starr disappears. Annie grows up to follow the path ordained...
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Meant to be volume 4
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"Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she's read, Ren has never found one that's taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves...
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"Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run away with her creep of a first husband. She also ran away with Midge's credit cards and his Ford Torino--in place of which she left her lover's 1963 Buick Special, a compact car with 74,000 miles on it and a quarter-turn slack in the steering wheel. But Midge can track the lovebirds' escape once the credit card receipts start rolling in, and he sets off after them to get his car back. The route: from Arkansas through...
15) Pig Pig returns
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Pig Pig books volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
16) Traveling light
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"From the New York Times bestselling author and "masterful storyteller"* behind The Art of Arranging Flowers comes a new novel about the search for what really matters in life... Driving from North Carolina to New Mexico with her three-legged dog, a strange man's ashes, and a waitress named Blossom riding shotgun isn't exactly what Alissa Wells ever wanted to be doing. But it's exactly what she needs... It all starts when Alissa impulsively puts a...
17) Slow ride
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Road to love volume 2
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"Ronnie Ashford needs a distraction. In the morning, she has to offer arrogant, conventional Jack Crews a job and convince him not to take it. She doesn't need anyone's help, thank you very much. But tonight is all about the tall, sexy stranger who just walked in the bar--and all the delicious trouble they could get into together. Too bad just as things are heating up between them, he whispers the three little words that destroy everything: 'I'm Jack...
18) The road home
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Naomi, a Las Vegas widow with a Mennonite background, and her cocktail waitress daughter-in-law, Ruth, embark on a cross-country journey in search of hope and meaning that leads them to Naomi's old farm in Lancaster County.
19) Wagons ho!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Compares the experiences of Jenny Johnson and Katie Miller as their families move from Missouri to Oregon, one in 1846 and one in 2011.
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Route 66 trilogy (Annie Jones) volume 3
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It was on the set that they first met, on the set that they first fell in love, and on the set that the two exchanged marriage vows. Fifteen years later Teague and Wendie are separated, with every intention of splitting up for good. These days, there's talk of a reunion for the characters on the show. Could a reconciliation for Teague and Wendie be in the script as well?