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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.
Author
Series
Girls of Paper and Fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from...
4) Enchantee
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"When smallpox kills her parents, seventeen-year-old Camille must find a way to provide for her beloved younger sister while managing their volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly turns scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when her brother disappears with the family's savings, Camille pursues a richer, more perilous scheme at the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Using dark magic...