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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
2) Damned
Author
Series
Damned Trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.
5) Tucker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once, impressed by their tales of gunplay and thievery, Shell Tucker had been eager to call them his friends. Then he saw the men in Bob Heseltine's gang rob his father of twenty thousand in hard-earned money.
7) Everwild
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Language
English
Description
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation is a landmark work that brings to life the long-inaccessible ancient scrolls of Qumran. Three distinguished translators at the forefront of modern scrolls scholarship reveal the rich tapestry of writings known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Translated into modern-day English by Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr., and Edward Cook, this book contains virtually every legible portion of the fragmented scrolls, including...
Author
Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Michael sneaks into a cave near the Dead Sea where his father has been working and finds a pair of 2,000-year-old squirrels, which he stows in his backpack and takes home to Tennessee.
Author
Series
Alex Craft novels volume 4
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Grave witch Alex Craft's investigation into a new street drug that causes hallucinations that turn real lands her in the middle of a conflict between the fae
Author
Series
Riley Bloom series volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
13) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Evil Lord Sparr puts Princess Keeah in a trance. The kids have to go to the Land of the Lost to save Keeah and keep Sparr from the Golden Wasp. Sparr wants to use the Wasp to take over Droon. The Land of the Lost is home of Droon's good dead heroes. Sparr takes Keeah out of the trance but puts her in a maze. The kids get her out. Sparr unleashes the evil Skorth. The Skorth are the evil Droon dead.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Although almost everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, few people can explain what they say or why they are significant. In The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hershel Shanks, the distinguished editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, gives a vivid account of their religious and historical context and their dissemination, meaning, and implications. Of the eight hundred manuscripts that were eventually found, fewer than a dozen were...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Since the first scrolls were found in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of passionate speculation and controversy. This book, written by three noted scholars in the field, draws together all the evidence and presents the first fully illustrated survey of every major manuscript, from the Copper Scroll, the Community Rule, and the Temple Scroll to less well-known scripts such as the Florilegium and New Jerusalem. "The Scrolls Revealed"...
Author
Publisher
Shelter Harbor Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Since their chance discovery in a series of mountain caves in the area between Jerusalem and Jericho in 1947, the Dead Sea scrolls have been the source of endless debate between scholars and religious organizations. Many books have been written, and many conflicting theories put forward about when the scrolls were written, and who wrote them, a debate which continues today, and will no doubt continue for years to come.
20) The way back
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.