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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
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Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School.".
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates what becomes of Ermengarde and the other girls left behind at Miss Minchin's School after Sara Crewe leaves to live with her guardian, the Indian gentleman.
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Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Cori and Maz, once inseparable best friends, reunite to solve the mystery of what happened to their other friend Sam -- who disappeared five years ago and has now returned, not having aged at all"--
Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking anymore. How could...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling manor, a venerable church, and a memorial to the village's soldiers, almost all of whom died in one bloody battle. Now peace prevails, and the rest of England is newly alight with hope, but Easton Deadall remains haunted by tragedy-as does the Easton family. In 1911, five-year-old Kitty disappeared from her bed and has not been...
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Series
America in the King years volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day."--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"By the power of Grayskull, I have the power!" With those magical words, Prince Adam of Eternia is transformed into the valiant defender of his realm, and a television icon was born! Inspired by the wildly popular toys, the original He-Man series became a cultural phenomenon starring He-Man, Orko, Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, and more unforgettable characters.
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In The Ikigai Journey, authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your own ikigai through practical exercises, such as employing new habits and stepping outside your comfort zone. Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have to offer the world)...
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