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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Beauty	Robin McKinley	A retelling of the story Beauty and the Beast. There is also a sequel available titled Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.	OL109417W
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s…	OL1095427W
Wives and daughters	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.	OL1103200W
The last April dancers	Jean Thesman	Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide.	OL114057W
I shop with my daddy	Grace Maccarone	A father and his young daughter go up and down the aisles of a supermarket selecting groceries.	OL115712W
Affaire courilof / Le bal / David Golder / Le bal / Mouches d'automne	Irène Némirovsky	A collection of novels by the Russian-born author of Suite Française," who died in Auschwitz in 1942, features David Golder," a parable about greed and loneliness, as well as three novels available …	OL1308095W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Patricia Krapesh	Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.	OL14869595W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Charles Dickens	Grade 3 Vocabulary restricted to 3,100 headwords Illustrated in colour Lucie thinks that her father, Dr. Manette, is dead. Then one day a stranger tells her that Dr. Manette is alive - he has be…	OL14869647W
The stepmother	Carrie Adams	Bea Frazier was once the apple of her husband's eye — but now he's picked a more succulent fruit. . . .Bea thought she'd rediscover her incredible self after divorcing Jimmy. But being home alone wit…	OL14933241W
The silver sea	Julia Golding	When pirates raid a village in ninth-century Norway, eighteen-year-old Toki is captured as a prize, while Freydis, his younger sister, is taken to a friendly village where she and her African slave, …	OL14936339W
The uninvited	Tim Wynne-Jones	Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her father offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she's…	OL14950807W
Sally's submarine	Joan Anderson	Sally's homemade submarine takes her out to sea, to the ocean floor, and back home just as her fisherman father returns to the dock.	OL15036764W
Trance	Linda C. Gerber	Ashlyn was unable to use her visions of the future to save her mother's life, but as she begins to understand and control them somewhat, she realizes that love interest Jake is the subject of her mos…	OL15082684W
Witch catcher	Mary Downing Hahn	Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by…	OL15100449W
The gold dust letters	Janet Taylor Lisle	When nine-year-old Angela and her friends begin investigating the letters she has received from her fairy godmother, it helps take Angela's mind off her strained relationship with her father.	OL15140918W
Dead Right	Brenda Novak	The people of Stillwater, Mississippi,are asking questions about murder. Again.Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepf…	OL15170185W
Blue Skies	Fleur McDonald	From the bestselling author of Red Dust comes the inspirational story of a young woman battling to save the family farm no matter what it takes ...In the tradition of Rachael Treasure and from the be…	OL15175054W
Tackling Dad	Elizabeth Levy	When Cassie tries out for the middle school football team, she faces unexpected opposition from her father, a former professional football player.	OL15219161W
The girl is murder	Kathryn Miller Haines	In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he…	OL15520711W
The family man	Elinor Lipman	"Reunited with his long-lost stepdaughter by an ex-wife's hysterical plea for help, gay lawyer Henry Archer allows the young woman to move into his basement, where she reluctantly poses as the girlfr…	OL15842730W