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1) Dad is fat
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English
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Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children
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On November 22, 1963, science and aerospace reporter Hugh Aynesworth had the day off. He was not among the cadre of reporters and photographers assigned to cover the Dallas visit of President John F. Kennedy. Within forty-eight hours, however, Aynesworth had witnessed the assassination of the president, the arrest of the assassin, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Now more than fifty years later, November 22, 1963: WITNESS TO HISTORY...
3) ANGELS FALL
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English
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A woman witnesses a murder on a remote mountain, but only one man, a killer, believes her
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints
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"Here Earl J. Hess offers an in-depth military history of a critical phase of the long federal campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. Hess focuses on the period from May 18-23, 1863, comprising the end of Ulysses S. Grant's overland march to the rear of the city and the beginning of his siege. These five days were a watershed in the development of Grant's eight months-long campaign to capture the Gibraltar of the Confederacy....
10) Bone Gap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying
11) What we saw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
12) Hush
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program
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Archy, a New York City cockroach, and Mehitabel, a New York City alley cat, were characters created by "The Evening Sun" columnist Donald Robert Perry Marquis. The subject of hundreds of humorous poems and stories, Archy is portrayed as having been a free verse poet in a previous life who takes to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the office of a newspaper after everyone has gone home. Archy's best friend is the alley cat Mehitabel...
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When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn't begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he'd prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant and annoying woman. But when her body is discovered, Hamish is forced to investigate a crime that the only known witness--now dead--had forgotten
17) Greenwitch
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Dark is rising sequence volume 3
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English
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Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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English
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Four men including a master murderer match wits in a diabolical effort to control the earth--Novelist
19) Shadowlands
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
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American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor-the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids-and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today. Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville age. He explores the (often unseemly) contexts from...
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