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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
5) Growing up
Author
Publisher
Congdon & Weed
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia. When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise. These were Depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her fledgling family to Baltimore. Baker's mother was determined...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the childhood of Santa, including his love of standing in front of the refrigerator, giving away his birthday presents, and his adoring parents.
10) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for refugees everywhere. One night when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in Congo, was very young, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu man, came to their home with a machete in his hand and warned the family they were to be killed within hours. Dogon's family fled into the bush, where they began...
12) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
13) Kickoff!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Tiki and Ronde move up to seventh grade football, they learn that seniority rules over skills, and they must decide whether to stay with the team even if it means being bench warmers, in this book based on the childhood experiences of football players Tiki and Ronde Barber.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tries -- candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner -- bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit of knowledge with him. That tendency is exactly what leads him to become the astonishingly versatile...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the humanity and brutality of Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods through a series of intimate profiles that illuminate the firsthand realities of gun violence in contemporary America.
16) Smile: sisters
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 volumes : color illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 sheet of stickers
Language
English
Description
Two semi-autobiographical graphic novels recount Riana's struggles with corrective dental techniques and her disappointing bond with her cranky younger sister following the arrival of a baby brother.
18) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
20) Smile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raina g�ar i femte klasse. En kveld etter speideren snubler hun og faller, og skader tennene stygt. Det som f�lger er en lang og frustrerende periode, av og p�a med regulering, operasjon, pinlig b�yle, og til og med b�yle med falske tenner p�a. Som om ikke det var nok s�a er det jordskjelv, gutteforvirring, og venner som viser seg �a ikke v�re s�a snille. Denne sanne historien om Rainas tanndrama f�lger henne fra tiden p�a...