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Annie's people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is 'still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Tarzan of the Apes is a coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. His father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, and his mother dies of natural causes. At one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or "white-skin" in the ape language.
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English
Description
"Before there was 'tourism' or 'leisure time;' before souvenir ashtrays became 'camp' and 'kitsch;' before Goofy Golf became an 'attraction' and today's colossal theme parks could even be imagined, there was 'Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks -- Family Vacationland,' where to this day the ashtrays remain devoid of irony. It was here, at Arrowhead Lodge at Lake of the Ozarks, where Bill Geist spent his summers between high school and college working at...
Author
Series
Bravelands curse of the sandtongue volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Grandmother's attacks on the creatures of Bravelands come to a head"--
5) Grenade
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.
Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When World War II crashes onto his shores, Hideki is yanked out of school and drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American solider.
Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa with his squad....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As a young woman, Anne Shirley is embracing adulthood by becoming a productive member of society making the transition from imaginative student to respected schoolteacher. In this classic coming of age story, Anne navigates various challenges that tempt old habits and test her new maturity.
A now 16-year-old Anne continues to live with Marilla in the quaint farming town of Avonlea. While poised to start a new teaching position, Anne struggles to...
7) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
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English
Description
Sarah is leaving suburban Wisconsin for her freshman year in Minnesota. She has high hopes for the foreseeable future: impress her professors, meet interesting new people, stay close to her best friends and boyfriend back home, flourish as an artist, and shed her lingering high school anxieties. What seems manageable at first quickly unravels into a tailspin as Sarah's high-achieving roommate puts her to shame, her summer love dissolves, and she is...
9) Prank day
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to impress Zoe, Chase coordinates a series of practical jokes on the entire town, but when his pranks take on a life of their own, Chase and his friends must search for the culprit"--
10) On the road
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).
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Baby-sitters Club volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: she wears hippie clothes, has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia...