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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was—that I couldn't stick around—and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.
Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend,...
Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend,...
62) Goodbye Days
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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“Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming.” —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything.
Perfect for fans of Turtles All the Way Down,Thirteen Reasons Why, and Zentner's own The Serpent King, one of the most highly acclaimed YA novels of 2016, Goodbye Days asks...
Perfect for fans of Turtles All the Way Down,Thirteen Reasons Why, and Zentner's own The Serpent King, one of the most highly acclaimed YA novels of 2016, Goodbye Days asks...
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English
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Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.
This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's...
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English
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This book is a collection of thirteen exaggerated stories concerning the writer's experiences growing up in a small unnamed town in the Palouse country of eastern Washington state in the early 1930s and 1940s. Chapters 3, 4, 9 and 10 contain portions that are simply"made up" situations purely from the writer's imagination. This series of stories is an example of creative nonfiction and all of them are based on actual events from the writer's childhood...
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English
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"The Knight" is a poetic book of a knight saving a kingdom from a dragon invasion. A first in a series of children's books. Rhyming scheme with advanced vocabulary, including definitions in the footnotes. Use of psychological principles, phoneme manipulation, and storytelling provides young children with rich writing experiences which can lay a foundation for literacy learning.
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English
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The continuing saga of Our Animal Friends traveling to South America to visit their new found friends. From our animal friends we learn valuable lessons about peace is a beautiful virtue. And what should we do when we fight with each other. The book continues how our friends get lost in the forest and are afraid. Elaina, their new found friend saves the day! Life is a beautiful journey and we can learn from each other.
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Español
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Este libro explora las relaciones entre ética y estética en la ficción para niñxs haciendo foco en temas considerados como "difíciles" o "controversiales" según las consideraciones actuales sobre lo que sería apropiado para ellxs. Macarena García González examina críticamente la premisa de que la literatura infantil sirve para aprender de emociones cuestionando las epistemologías adultistas y las aprehensiones conservadoras que subyacen...
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English
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Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book-every day of the year!
This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature. Each page features an event of the day, a children's book that relates to that event, and a list of other events that took place on that day. Always informative...
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English
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This book is, divided into two parts, Fiction and Memoirs, but the sections do overlap. I have learned that a small memory or experience is not a story but merely a Vignette. However, that Vignette can turn into a story with the help of some imagination. Therefore, all of these short pieces needed some sort of "trigger" to bring them to completion.
Some of them are, based on early experiences in many places throughout the United States and especially...
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English
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A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death.C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and about Lewis for four decades. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death, King has put together a collection of his essays and critical reviews organized around four areas.
The first deals mainly with what will perhaps be Lewis's longest...
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features
• Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
• Eight pages of color stills from the film
• Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits...
Bonus features
• Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
• Eight pages of color stills from the film
• Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits...
72) The cruel prince
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Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace...
73) Flowers in the gutter: the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
Their earliest memories were of the Nazi rise to power and of their parents fighting Brownshirts in the streets, being sent to prison, or just disappearing. By the time they were teenagers, the Nazis expected...
74) Eldest
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end
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Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This book addresses the hows and whys of coming out, as well as potential concerns teenagers may have--including how to know when you're ready to come out, who to tell first, and how to deal with unsupportive people. First-hand accounts from teenagers provide personal insight throughout"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far.
But Lucky has a secret—one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life....
But Lucky has a secret—one that helps him wade through the daily mundane torture of his life....
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