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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy -- a once rational teenager - shocks her family by insisting that Michael is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. Placed in a new school, Wendy negotiates fantasy and reality as students and adults around...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
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Description
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Franciscos busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In Spanish and in English, a first-person account of children's experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border. Every day, children in migration are detained at the US-Mexico border. They are scared, alone, and their lives are in limbo. Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz shares the stories of 61 these children, from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Mexico, ranging in age from five to seventeen--in their own words from actual sworn testimonies....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Packed with 30 new garments and accessories. Projects are organized by season and range from cozy slippers, mittens, and a pom-pom wreath to Fair Isle yoke-neck sweaters for the whole family. Embracing the full calendar year and a wide spectrum of reasons to gift knits, each project captures the season's essence through color scheme and project type, resulting in a well-rounded and unique book. Some patterns include simple non-knitting embellishments...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"What If We Were Somewhere Else is the question everyone asks in these linked stories as they try to figure out how to move on from job losses, broken relationships, and fractured families. Following the employees of a nameless corporation and their loved ones, these stories examine the connections they forge and the choices they make as they try to make their lives mean something in the soulless, unforgiving hollowness of corporate life. Looking...
Author
Pub. Date
20190501.
Description
Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives...
11) Eleven
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Sam, who is a talented woodworker but can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
12) Up in the air
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Provides instructions for a variety of projects that demonstrate the properties and uses of air.
Author
Series
Ten Beach Road novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first got to know one another--perhaps all too well--while desperately restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. Now they're putting that experience to professional use. But their latest project has presented some challenges they couldn't have dreamed up in their wildest fantasies--although the house does belong to a man who actually was Maddie's wildest fantasy once . . . Rock-and-roll legend "William the Wild"...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
An independent fashion designer explains how readers can create the perfect shirt, skirt, and pants, with step-by-step instructions and patterns for a variety of innovative projects, along with tips on how to customize one's wardrobe with a number of variations on three basic patterns.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
19) Super sound
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Provides instructions for a variety of projects that demonstrate the properties and uses of sound.
20) Water play
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Provides instructions for a variety of projects that demonstrate the properties and uses of water.