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1) Heidi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.
3) Iced
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
4) Bloomability
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
273 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers her world expanding.
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the U.S. Treasury's Office of Terrorism and...
7) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...