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1) Giants
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Greed and ambition collide with survival and the love of family in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by giant monsters whose only goal is destruction!A cataclysm of unknown origin unleashed a race of massive creatures whose presence has driven humanity underground. There, two orphans discover that the most dangerous monster is ambition, which unchecked, will grow until it devours you.In their first work for American comics, the Valderrama Bros. have...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While hoping to find his mother, Jack encounters seven deadly giants: the Giant Poet, the Terrible Glutton, Mrs. Roth, the Wild Tickler, Avaritch, Orgulla the Great, and the Green Queen.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families -- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh -- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interviews conducted by a mysterious and unnamed character,...
Author
Series
Adventures of the Bailey School kids volume 33
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Is the large man giving snowboarding lessons really a giant lurking on Ruby Mountain? The Bailey School Kids want to find out.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet.
Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This gripping docu-series provides a candid look at the struggles, relationships and day-to-day lives of Major League Baseball players through unprecedented access to Giants players, their families, coaches and team personnel. Real, dramatic, intense, unexpected. It's baseball from the inside-out, opening the clubhouse doors to reveal your favorite team as never before. Bonus features: vignettes and promos; 2011 walk-off victories; Sandoval hits...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
These giant trees stretch more than 300 feet above the ground, with hidden gardens and mysterious predators thriving within their canopy. Obsessive redwood climber Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University investigates their monster crowns, tallying biological material and discovering new record-breaking trees, while escaping falling branches and crashing trees in the process. Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay charts the redwood range.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
20) When Giants Burn
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this “poignant” (Publishers Weekly), riveting middle grade novel that’s “a ‘Hatchet and Gretel story’” (Booklist), two unlikely friends fly off on an adventure they hope will set them free—only to learn the value of what they left behind.
Gerty has a secret: She’s building an airplane. She wants to join the Civil Air Patrol, where pilots as young as twelve...
Gerty has a secret: She’s building an airplane. She wants to join the Civil Air Patrol, where pilots as young as twelve...
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