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2) Gorillas
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Given their huge size and hulking movements, gorillas might seem frightening at first, but they are actually gentle and intelligent animals. Readers will find out how these gentle giants search for food, communicate with one another, and form complex social groups.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother's funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see - a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy hesitates to ask his father: Where did his mother go? Will she come back home? Will we all die? Yet with the gorilla's friendship, the boy slowly begins...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though the city faces nightly air raids, in 1941 Joseph is sent to London to live with the gruff Mrs F, who teaches the angry boy how to care for the remaining animals in the city zoo, including a mighty silverback gorilla named Adonis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"For generations, the Silverback troop has lived in peaceful seclusion high above the plains, but when a new evil descends on their home, one young gorilla must venture into the unknown to prevent darkness from taking hold of all they hold dear"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a terrible evil spreads through the Bravelands, causing families to split and longtime allies to turn against each other, Bramble, Chase, and Prance seek help from the Great Father, who may not be able to save them this time.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"You can't believe your eyes. But you can believe the numbers. The Photicular series, with four books published in the last five years, now has 2 million copies in print--and with every new title published the backlist rises to the occasion. After last year's success with Jungle (over 215,000 copies in print in just a few months), here comes Wild -- the book, and the idea, for which the series could have been invented. Wild captures eight endangered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry....
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever thought about running a 5K naked or getting the all-time biggest marathon finisher's medal? How about running five miles while eating a dozen donuts or chugging down a few beers? Or maybe you'd prefer running a half marathon in paradise or a 5K dressed as a gorilla? Whatever your dreams, runner and traveler Denise Malan has written the perfect book for everybody who is searching for America's greatest--and craziest--running adventures:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano De México
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Bob, un perro rebelde pero de gran corazón, deberá enfrentarse a sus peores temores y emprender un peligroso viaje para recuperar a su hermana perdida. Con la amenaza de un inminente huracán, Bob habrá de apoyarse en sus mejores amigos-- Iván y Ruby--, hallar el coraje que no sabía que tenía y aprender el verdadero significado de la amistad y la familia.
Author
Publisher
Oceano Travesia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Ruby vive en un santuario de vida silvestre, y su cuidador de Ruby del orfanato de elefantes en África donde creció está de visita. Verlo de nuevo le trae una avalancha de recuerdos felices y tristes de su vida antes del circo, y les cuenta a Iván y Bob el tiempo que pasó en la sabana africana.
Ruby lives in a wildlife sanctuary, and Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sara was at the tender age of 12 when she found the skeleton in her prudish parents' closet: a series of novelty sex books crammed high up on a shelf in her childhood living room, all written by Sara's ordinary suburban dad, Ira. For decades the books were an unspoken secret in Sara's family until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease...and announced he'd be reviving his novelty porn career. With Sara's help. In this cringe-worthy, unique,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life. Influence doesn't work the way you think because you don't think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions--such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you--and understand...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness -- in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience -- that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Magazine spreads and Hollywood hits showcase stars with perfect skin, perfect faces, perfect hair, perfect lives, perfect... everything. But what if the absence of scars is really a lie? And what if, underneath all that perfection, something far more powerful and authentic is waiting to be seen, shown, and heard? In Braver Than I Thought, kids meet the true stories of remarkable people whose scars have been a part of their journey, who have helped...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this ... reimagining of the Girl of Steel, Lex Luthor's familiar synthetic creation 'Matrix'--who mimics Superman's powers in a miniskirt--merges with human girl Linda Danvers to create a new Supergirl. These establishing issues develop their dynamic and set the stage for the ... series while welcoming pivotal appearances by Superman, Gorilla Grodd, and Ma and Pa Kent"--
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