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Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie are off to find an ancient Chinese myth but find themselves in serious danger when they encounter a book-burning emperor, but good fortune finds Jack and Annie as a silk weaver comes to their aid and helps them to safety.
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Language
English
Description
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt story of his own family’s greatest generation: his parents, the legendary broadcast journalist relates his mother’s can-do spirit and his father’s philosophy of “never give up”, which enabled them to survive the Great Depression and WWII—and help build the American century.
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While Harry and Emma race to discover the fate of their son after a terrible car accident, Don Pedro Martinez plots to install a puppet chairman at the Barrington Shipping Company and Jessica's nuptials are sabotaged by a poisonous friend.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1904 the city of Baltimore was almost destroyed by fire. Hundreds of firemen, policemen, soldiers, and citizens battled the blaze for three days. The disaster brings out the best in man and the bravest of deeds, but one hero stands head and shoulders above all...literally. Goliath is a fire horse assigned to Engine Company 15. He is massive in size and mighty in heart and steadfastness. To the men of Engine Company 15, Goliath is the ultimate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Traces the role of three Hawaiian cowboys who became champions at the 1908 Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo, detailing how their careers influenced post-annexation Hawaiian identity, island ranching, and the rodeo culture of Cheyenne.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson.
16) Sarah's key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.
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English
Description
Returning home from the king's service, Baron Wareham finds his castle nearly destroyed by the elusive Black Demon and teams up with the illegitimate but educated daughter of a priest to restore his home, an effort complicated by mysteries about the woman's identity and the Black Demon's agenda.
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Language
English
Description
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
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