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2) Pond & river
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is a photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A "novel of psychological suspense about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets"--A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl struggles to find a space for her lemonade stand in her crowded city and ultimately sets up shop at a river where she serves a menagerie of wildlife and fantastical creatures.
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies, with her father's life at stake.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, Margo takes to the Stark River in her grandfather's rowboat, with only a few supplies and a biography of her hero Annie Oakley, in search of her mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side. When Lil Mo discovers that his mother is about to be sold and the rest...
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Series
Language
English
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From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...
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Language
English
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Description
"The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton's Winter's End. It's springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with it the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition... the annual Death Walk. At the end of each brutal winter, citizens gather downtown and then break into groups to search the community for those who might have somehow gotten stuck at home. Beth Rivers sets off with her friend Orin and...