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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Book Studio, USA
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.
Author
Series
Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After surviving his first year at Jedi Academy, Roan Novachez thought his second year would be a breeze. This year, Roan will have to face alien poetry tests, menacing robots, food fights, flight simulation class, online bullies, more lightsaber duels, and worst of all ... a girl who is mad at him.
24) The hate u give
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
25) The Rescue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks-risks no one else in the department would ever take-to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. For all of his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate. Then one day,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
Author
Publisher
White Pine Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
In Independent, he writes: "A recent issue of the hometown paper / turns bloodhound to sniff me out, / and I read that the church / where I learned to have no other gods / before it / has merged with a larger denomination, / the stuccoed building, big as a poor boy's / castle, sold to the Baptists, / and quick as a miracle I mix myself a drink."
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Kloefkorn is a perfect blend of poet, raconteur, and scholar....Kloefkorn's poetry--perhaps like all poetry--is about the price of wonder. Wonder at nature, wonder at fate, and wonder--finally, luminously--at the miraculous depths and tributaries of the human soul."--Brent Spencer, Nebraska Life.
"Kloefkorn's style comes not only from long attention to the world, but from sustained immersion in the art and craft of language, and from granting himself...
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