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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumphover the very darkest moments of war.
Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Series
Witch and wizard novels volume no. 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Without explanation, kids around the country begin to disappear, coinciding with the government's recent clampdown on civil freedoms. Fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit are no exception. Kidnapped in the middle of the night, the teens are taken to a secret facility and locked in a cell. Plotting their escape, Wisty and Whit start exhibiting special powers, which may be the reason for the recent capture.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new introduction by the author and a message that is more relevant today than when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than five million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 -- originally published in 1953 -- remains his most acclaimed work. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature...
5) The gift
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
New York City, 1953. Louise Leithauser has filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown-- albeit under a male pseudonym. On the side...
7) Disclose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Meri Buckley has lost everything. She lost her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth--to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy is the only path to peace. But though Meri and her band of truth-seeking Stewards did lose the first battle in their quest to enlighten the public, they have not yet lost the war. Meri can start the revolution she seeks, if the powerful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public.
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
There's a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that one of the most significant causes of the crisis is the way our public language has changed.
Enough Said tells the story of how we got from the language...
10) Ban this book
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every...
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