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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. -- back cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Against All Odds is the wise, moving new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's favorite authors"-- Provided by publisher. "The story of a long-widowed proprietor of a top flight haute couture resale shop and her four adult children, who, in their search to find the right partners for themselves, encounter and struggle with some very difficult and modern problems facing young people...
283) Steal away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
285) Someone new
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
286) The dirt diary
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
287) A fine white dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter's struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and non-beliefs of his family and friends.
291) Coyote tales
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King's cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers.
293) Indian Boyhood
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
Description
A full-blooded Sioux Indian describes his childhood experiences and training as a warrior in the 1870's and 1880's until he was taken to live in the white man's world at age fifteen.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The golden age which is expected from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree turns gradually worse as the owls' young king hunts for the truth about his ancestry.
295) The breadwinner
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
296) Emako Blue
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Monterey, Savannah, Jamal, and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los Angeles high school students become intertwined, tragedy tears them apart.
297) Aesop's Fables
Series
Language
English
Description
Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.
298) The green giant
Author
Publisher
Pavillion Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young girl, Bea, and her dog, Iris, are staying with her grandpa in the country. Bea is bored, but Iris's adventures lead them to the small and rusty old greenhouse next door. Inside the greenhouse, Bea finds... a giant. A giant made entirely of plants and greenery. Bea is scared, but the giant reassures her and explains that he has escaped from the grey city. Bea and the giant become friends, but can they do anything to make the grey city, and...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
ESPAÃOL: La paloma aprende a compartir cuando un curioso patito le hace preguntas sobre el perro caliente que la paloma encontro.
ENGLISH: Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found.
300) The club
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a group of friends starts getting together to play an old game that they discovered in a basement called "Black Magic," they begin to discover that the game's promise of granting good fortune at the expense of enemies is coming true, to a horrific extent.
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