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Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
Author
Series
Beyond the circle volume 2
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter. Others say the gateway is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, Rachelle Matthews dreamed and awoke in another world. She was the 49th Mystic, tasked with finding five ancient seals before powerful enemies destroy her. She found the first three, but two seals remain hidden, and now Rachelle is in a dungeon.
Author
Series
The Kane chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
viii, 406 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carter and Sadie Kane didn't know how chaotic the world would become in their role to restore order. The Chaos snake Apophis is loose and threatening to destroy earth in three days' time. There is possibly one way to stop Apophis, but it might cost Carter and Sadie their lives.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Physical Desc
220 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The journal from Henry's trip across the country with the Glass family, telling of the sights they saw and the strange things which resulted when Henry and Midge became involved in innocent and blameless goings-on.
28) The book of Boy
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. Includes recipe.
30) In my pocket
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty afflict everyone on the boat on the morning in July 1939 when Jewish children sail from Holland to the safety of a new life in Scotland.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
33) A warm welcome
Author
Series
Anna and Elsa volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olaf has news for Elsa! He has heard of a summer queen from a summer land with summer magic--someone with similar powers as Elsa's, who can control fire and heat. He says her land is trapped in an eternal summer. Olaf thinks it sounds great, but Elsa and Anna think she might be in trouble. Either way, a journey is in order!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
314 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sprout's grandma invites him and his sister Clara on a car trip, he is nervous about sleeping away from Mom and Dad for the first time, but he ends up having a lot of fun with Grandma.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Red Knit Cap Girl and White Bunny, with help from Mr. Owl and the Moon, take to the high seas as they set off on a journey to help the lost Polar Bear Cub find his way back to his family and his arctic home"--
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
38) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In fourteenth-century Norway, the plague has destroyed Rype's entire village, and as the sole survivor, she embarks on a sweeping adventure across Europe with the son of an English ship captain and a band of troubadours in search of a brighter future and a new home.
39) Just one day
Author
Series
Just One Day volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love."--
40) Frozen
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.