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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the real-world experiences of passengers, conductors and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, who shaped history through their participation in the Underground Railroad, is complemented by reminiscences by BeForever character and escaped slave, Addy Walker.
2) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass (The Candymakers), and Alexander London (The Wild Ones) who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.