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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
Author
Language
English
Description
""Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove)--there's a new curmudgeon to love."--Booklist (starred review). "Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is absolutely gripping."--Jojo Moyes, #1New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. "Deft, compassionate and deeply moving -- Honeyman's debut will have you rooting for Eleanor with every turning page."...
Author
Series
Amgash volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio--a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--depicting one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former classmates converge on their hometown, each with a mission, all haunted by the ghosts of their shared histories. Since the turn of the century, a generation has come of...
Author
Series
Bad guys volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A creature with tons of teeth and way too many butts is stealing the Bad Guys one by one.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with Aldwych. But eventually August starts bringing home other...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexander could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. He went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair. When he got out of bed, he tripped over his skateboard and by mistake dropped his sweater in the sink while the water was running. He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Nothing at all was right. Everything...
10) Milk and honey
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1985. Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the myst
13) Peek-a-boo elves
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
[10] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this board book with die-cut pages and rhyming text, Santa's elves build toys for Christmas.
14) Peek-a-boo Santa
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
[10] pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this board book with die-cut pages and rhyming text, Santa Claus delivers gifts from his sack.