Sara Gruen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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English
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When their humiliated father, an ex-army Colonel, severs their access to the family fortune, Maddie and Ellis Hyde travel to war-torn Scotland, where colorblind Ellis plans to find the Loch Ness monster his father failed to locate, hoping to win his father's approval once more. Meanwhile, Maddie embraces her true identity. Society awakens the true woman within as Hitler's war rages.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village"--Web page.
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English
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Against all odds, a veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era (Reese Witherspoon) meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband (Christoph Waltz).