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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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A polio victim and her 13-year-old daughter work miracles from their Tupelo, Miss., home during the summer of 1964. Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant, Paige Dunn delivers her baby from an iron lung, and ends up raising her daughter, Diana, alone after her husband divorces her. Able to move only her head, Paige requires round-the-clock nursing care that social services barely cover. Now 13, Diana has taken over the night shift to save them...
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Forced to choose between one man who wants to marry her and another who already did, Callie Valentine Jones can't think of a better way to check out of her personal Heartbreak Hotel than to get out of town. So when Lovie invites the whole Valentine clan to visit her archaeologist beau's worksite near Cozumel, Callie packs up Elvis, her crooning Basset Hound, and heads for the airport. They've barely arrived when Elvis sniffs out a skeleton too fresh...
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2012
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It's the season to be merry and Uncle Charlie has signed the Valentines up to spread some cheer. With Uncle Charlie as Santa, Callie agrees to be the too tall, skinny Elf. When Rudolph turns up dead, Callie wonders if Santa aka "Uncle Charlie" was the intended target, and she and Lovie work around the clock trying to find the killer before Uncle Charlie IS the next victim!
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c2009
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When Elvis impersonators start dying at the annual Elvis festival in Tupelo, Mississippi, Callie Valentine Jones and her cousin Lovie find themselves at the center of a murder investigation. Callie needs to find the real killer to prove Lovie's innocence, and she has to act fast before the wrong person is singing jailhouse blues.