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(0)Alex Tresniowski
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the story of a young mother who underwent an intense near-death experience after she became unresponsive during a medical emergency, as she discusses the hardships of her past and the impact of the experience on her life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us. One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness.
7) Paul Newman
Author
Publisher
Time Inc. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the iconic movie star, detailing his fifty-year film career and his involvement in philanthropic and political causes.
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing Division, [2015]
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This heartfelt story tells the true but unlikely tale of a young woman working in the city and a young boy in desperate need of friendship and guidance. In the short time after they meet, Laura realizes Maurice has never celebrated Christmas, so she opens her heart and her home and sets out to show him how wondrous the holiday is. What she finds through his glowing eyes is that the meaning of the holiday is truly about giving, not getting, as they...
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