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IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
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"Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully...
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Warner Home Video
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English
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The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.
The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"This book offers you the tools and accumulated wisdom of hundreds of students, administrators, professors, counselors, and campus ministers to help you take advantage of the options in front of you and make good decisions in the years ahead. ... Ultimately, ... [this book] has been generated for students by students."--Introduction, p. xii-xiii.
6) Sweet talk
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[2012]
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English
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When FBI agent Grayson Kincaid first encounters Olivia MacKenzie, she makes quite an impression. The beautiful, tough young attorney has stumbled into the middle of an FBI sting operation and reduced it to chaos. Months of surveillance and careful planning down the drain, Kincaids partner is furious and lets Olivia know that shes ticked off the wrong guy. After all, hes FBI. But Olivia isnt intimidated by his partners bullying because shes something...
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Harper
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English
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"Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy. Then, for no apparent reason, another justice is mysteriously attacked. Dana Cutler-one of the heroes from Margolin's bestselling Executive Privilege-is quietly called in to investigate. She looks for links between the Woodruff appeal and the ominous incidents in the justices'...
8) The Sandlot
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English
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Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Many of the baseball greats overcame huge challenges to be sports heroeshere are five inspiring stories of men who did just that. Baseball is considered Americas pastime, but not all players grew up living the American dream. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre sure didnt. Poverty, abuse, and addiction are a few of the issues they had to deal with as kids, but they turned their lives around to play the game they loved....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
15) The sixth man
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English
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Edgar Roy, an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility, is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins - en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered.
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Roca Junior
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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En esta carta a sus hijas, el presidente Barack Obama ha escrito un conmovedor homenaje a trece estadounidenses innovadores y los ideales que han dado forma a nuestra naci�n. Desde el arte de Georgia O'Keeffe, a la valent�a de Jackie Robinson, al patriotismo de George Washington, el presidente Obama ve los rasgos de estos h�roes dentro de sus propios hijos, y dentro de todos los ni�os de Am�rica.
18) The siege
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English
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Stephen White's Alan Gregory novels are beloved by both fans and critics. But now, Gregory takes a back seat as his longtime friend Sam Purdy takes center stage. Readers should buckle in for a nonstop ride full of terror and pathos as a number of students - including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and the newest Supreme Court justice - go missing from the Yale Campus, and attention focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret...
19) Port mortuary
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Many years ago, Kay Scarpetta accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. These military ties have taken her to the port mortuary aat Dover Air Force Base for a training fellowship. Upon her return to the Cambridge Forensic Center, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility. A young man drops dead, but when his body is examined the next morning, there are indications that he may have...
20) The happening
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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An unstoppable event threatens the world's population by attacking the most basic human instinct of all: survival. Elliot Moore is an ordinary man who is trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot discovers the incredible possibility of what is happening, it becomes very clear that no one is safe.