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Author
Series
I survived volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.
742) The Auschwitz escape
Author
Language
English
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
743) An American duchess
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expected to comport herself as nobility. Overnight. For Emma-stifled, homesick, and unable to shake the feeling she's being watched-the metamorphosis is a challenge....
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
745) Show Me a Sign
Author
Series
Show Me a Sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
746) Divide and conquer
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When thousands of Viking warriors descend on medieval Paris, Dak is captured and forced to work with the invaders while Sera and Riq defend the city, a situation that places them on opposing sides.
747) Airman
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
748) High time for heroes
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel back in time to Egypt and meet Florence Nightingale, who is on the trip that will influence her life and the decisions that will make her famous.
749) The maze of bones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away ... or get the first clue? If you're Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the clue - and begin a very dangerous race.
750) Once upon a wardrobe
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes another beautiful story inspired by C. S. Lewis's ability to change the world and captivate hearts--including those of a terminally ill boy and his logic-driven sister"--
751) Our only May Amelia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
752) Lucky broken girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
753) The kite runner
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.
754) March :, Book One
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.
755) Invictus
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past. During a routine heist on the sinking Titanic, Far...
756) A mutiny in time
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa Mar�ia--to correct history and defeat the SQ.
757) Code name Verity
Author
Series
Code Name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
759) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
760) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...