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Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller that inspired the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film. The funniest book you'll ever read about death.
It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at...
It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
489 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Sorrows of an American is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its...
144) Farolitos for Abuelo
Author
Series
Beginner books volume B-20
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
illus. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett-- until her disappearance became the one fascinating mystery the sleepy town of Griffin Mills has ever had. Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment, and comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too absurd to take seriously... at first. She decides to immerse herself in Lizzie's life, getting a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and hanging out with...
146) Walk two moons
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen year old Sal and her grandparents take a car tirp retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her firend Phoebe, whose mothe
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Finding herself the leader of a nightmarish realm populated by the awful beasts she read about as a child, Princess Sophia must unlock an ancient secret if she is to save her people from the great army marching on her castle.
148) Double take
Author
Series
Lake City heroes volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lainie Jackson survived her fianc�e's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat"--
149) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
150) Pixie pushes on
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Following her mother's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Sarah takes on the role of caretaker to her grieving father and younger brother, which leaves little time and emotional energy for a relationship, but when a school project helps her rediscover her love of art, her perspective shifts.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A profoundly moving nonfiction picture book about tragedy, hope, and healing from award-winning author Chris Barton.
Sometimes bad things happen, and you have to tell everyone. Sometimes terrible things happen, and everybody knows. On April 19, 1995, something terrible happened in Oklahoma City: a bomb exploded, and people were hurt and killed. But that was not the end of the story. Those who survived—and those who were forever changed—shared...
153) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a reconnection with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
