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Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During a camping trip, fun-loving but disorganized Matilda fears letting down her friends but her unicorn, Pearl, finds her magic in time to protect them all from a malicious, cloaked figure.
82) The black pearl
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Weather fairies volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When everyone in Wetherbury becomes gloomy, Rachel and Kirsty think the Cloud Feather might be to blame.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.
87) City of pearl
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1093. At her mentor's urgent request, Lassair is accompanying Gurdyman across the sea to Spain. But why is he so insistent on embarking on this difficult and dangerous journey just as winter approaches? And why does he seem so afraid? Could there be any connection to the vagrant found lying dead outside his home, a single pearl clutched in his outstretched hand? As the pair reach the remote mountainous regions of northern Spain, Lassair...
88) Our Bloody Pearl
Author
Series
These treacherous tides volume 1
Publisher
[Avos Publishing]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The ocean is uncontrollable and dangerous. But to the sirens who swim the warm island waters, it's a home more than worth protecting from the humans and their steam-propelled ships. Between their hypnotic voices and the strength of their powerful tails, sirens have little to fear. That is, until the ruthless pirate captain, Kian, creates a device to cancel out their songs." -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she's been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 56
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Asked to locate a stolen necklace of unusual value, Nancy soon discovers that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft.
92) The pearl thief
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.
Author
Series
Jo Mackenzie novels volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Jo MacKenzie yearns for some quiet time alone as she tries to manage three rambunctious children, a busy new shop and cafe, a fledgling romance and the antics of her friends and family.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 51
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo and his friends discover a huge oyster with an enormous pearl inside. After a feature article in the Rodent's Gazette, can they protect it from being stolen?
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men--unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
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