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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she knowthat she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
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Series
Language
English
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Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose...
3) The Sparrows
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Anna Sparrow meets Maria Sanchez while helping out at the local food bank. Though the two women come from very different backgrounds, they form strong bond over their shared love for their families. When trouble strikes Maria's family, Anna and her husband Mike are forced to face one of the most important decisions of their lives.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old bird watcher Ben must defy his brother to save their father after the glass plague sweeps through their town and a voice on the radio demands the simultaneous shattering of all plague victims.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sadie doesn’t want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they’ll be better off in Texas. It’s tough for Sadie to give up her beloved home for this strange place, where even children clean shrimp at the cannery to help make ends meet and where people are rude to her disabled father.
Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps...
Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps...
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Language
English
Description
With stirring storytelling evocative of Diana Gabaldon and Francine Rivers, this epic eighteenth-century novel transports readers to the Ohio-Kentucky frontier and a monumental encounter over a stolen child. When settler Clare Inglesby is widowed on a mountain crossing and her young son, Jacob, captured by Shawnees, she'll do everything in her power to get him back, including cross the Ohio River and march straight into the presence of her enemies...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Miranda Hanford, a widow and mother of six, feels trapped by her close-knit church and its controlling pastor Mason Chandler, who has threatened to dig up secrets from her past if she tries to leave, but she gets a glimpse at freedom when an injury forces her to call upon her estranged brother-in-law, college professor Jack Hanford, to help care for the children while she recovers.
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Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
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Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Nursery rhymes are rarely as innocent as they seem--there is a wealth of concealed meaning in our familiar childhood verse. More than a century after Queen Victoria decided that children were better off without the full story, London librarian Roberts brings the truth to light. He traces the origins of the subtle phrases and antiquated references, revealing religious hatred, political subversion, and sexual innuendo. A history lesson that makes astonishing...
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"These 15 women work with animals on land, air, and sea. Corina Newsome is saving seaside sparrows while Michelle LaRue uses satellites to study Antarctic birds. Lizzy Lowe takes on what many fear in researching spiders, and Erin Ashe lives out the dream of many studying dolphins and whales. Kristen Hecht chases the elusive hellbender amphibian while Enikö Kubinyi uses robots to get information on wolf pups. These women are working on issues that...
Publisher
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, the sparrow Richard believes he is a stork too! But when winter comes and the storks prepare to migrate to Africa, his stork family must reveal his true identity and leave him behind in the forest with the other sparrows, since he would not survive the long journey. Determined to prove he is a stork after all, Richard ventures south on an epic adventure -- accompanied by friends big and small --- to unleash...
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