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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After seventh graders Benji and Felix "borrow" $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner challenges them to spend over $5 million dollars in thirty days in order to learn life lessons about money"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Stella lives in the segregated South -- in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something...
Author
Series
Knights of the Borrowed Dark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A young orphan learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows in our world, and there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A Seattle family takes in Kyle, an amnesiac teen, whom they have learned has mysterious powers and psychic abilities. Kyle is the result of a secret human cloning experiment conducted years earlier. The family has been teaching Kyle human behaviors such as anger, joy and love. They guard Kyle against the evil forces who seek to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
"If you are chosen by the bizarre black sphere known as the Gantz, you are already dead. You remember dying, yet you can eat, sleep, have sex; it feels a lot like life. Strangers join you in this limbo. While some are good, some are very bad. All are dead like you--for now. You might be able to reclaim your mortality. But first, the Gantz demands that you undertaike missions of brutality and madness, killing aliens hidden among the population. It...
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 2
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.
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