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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. The Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Taking a nursing job in a small town after the end of World War II, Christina Tucker finds herself being romantically pursued by her employer's two sons and is targeted in a revenge plot by one of Dr. Barlow's former disgruntled patients.
8) We lie here
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Language
English
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Returning home to host her parents’ 20th-anniversary party, TV writer Yara Gibson is harassed by texts from her mother’s childhood friend Felicia, who desperately needs to talk to her, but when Felicia dies, Yara digs for answers, uncovering a truth that will change her life—or end it.
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