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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Even though he's best known for his successful PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Fred Rogers never dreamed of working in television. In fact, he hated the very first program that he ever watched! Join author Diane Bailey as she takes readers through the journey that brought Mister Rogers into our living rooms. From his childhood interest in puppet-making and music, to his courageous visit to Russia during the Cold War, this book details Mister...
Author
Publisher
AdventureKeen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This guidebook to your Disneyland vacation includes insider tips that save you time and money. There is a dining chapter with detailed reviews of more than 60 restaurants, including all full-service restaurants at the Disney hotels, theme parks, and Downtown Disney®. More than 80 Disneyland Resort and Anaheim hotels are rated and ranked, along with proven strategies for getting the best rate. Up-to-date information is included on Universal Studios,...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler. Though they're found in thirty-one states, and near many major cities, in contemporary America timber rattlesnakes are creatures mostly of imagination and innate fear. Ted...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Fred the dragon leaves home, he learns that he is not very good at roaring or breathing fire, and swallowing people only makes him ill, but with help from a witch, a giant, and a wise boy he finds his true calling.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned at an early age, Gillian and Sally Owen are raised by an aunt who deals in sorcery. The girls long for the normal life and leave home as soon as they can. Years later tragedy strikes and it is then they realize that magic is their gift, not their affliction. By the author of Illumination Night.
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Kiki, a young witch-in-training, has reached the age of 13. According to tradition, all witches of that age must leave home for one year, so that they can learn how to live on their own. Kiki, along with her talking cat Jiji, fly away to live in the seaside town of Korico. After starting her own delivery service (using her broom as the delivery vehicle), Kiki must learn how to deal with her new life, especially after she loses the power to fly.
9) True grit
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Language
English
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Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Eva Braun is one of history's most famous nonentities. She has been dismissed as a racist, feather-headed shop girl, and yet six decades after her death her name is still instantly recognizable. She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. She became his mistress before she was twenty. How did unsophisticated little Fräulein Braun, 23 years his junior, hold the most powerful man in Europe in an exclusive...
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school.
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah,...
12) Flowers!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is an introduction to the basics and life cycle of flowers.
Author
Publisher
Fineo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un día, la abuela de Cristina la llama por un nombre que no es el suyo, otro día hace cosas que a Catalina le parecen raras. Hasta que la niña se da cuenta de que su abuela está enferma: tiene Alzheimer.
María adores going on holiday at her grandmother's. Then one day Grandmother doesn't recognize Mary anymore. She starts forgetting things faster than expected. She must leave home and go to a rest home. But she hasn't forgotten everything......
15) The honest truth
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the...
17) Sweetbitter
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"A lush, thrilling debut--a publishing event already the subject of an article in The New York Times--about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. "Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge ..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come...
18) Pax
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
19) Home front
Author
Language
English
Description
"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
20) The guest
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Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and...
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