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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
2) In Paradise
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths. Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, is there to complete research on the...