Markus Zusak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
"This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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Español
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Érase una vez un pueblo donde las noches eran largas y la muerte contaba su propia historia. En el pueblo vivía una niña que quería leer, un hombre que tocaba el acordeón y un joven judío que escribía bellos cuentos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo, la niña se convirtió en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Con estas palabras se escribió una historia hermosa y cruel que ahora ya es una novela inolvidable....
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.
Author
Series
Wolfe trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tired of being the underdog, Cameron Wolfe hungers to become something worthwhile and finally finds a girl with whom he can share his words and feelings--his popular brother Rube's ex-girlfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Tras más de diez años de espera, llega el nuevo libro de Markus Zusak, autor del gran fenómeno editorial La ladrona de libros. Más de diez años después de La ladrona de libros, el extraordinario bestseller que superó los diez millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, Zusak vuelve con una saga familiar inolvidable y arrolladora. Los cinco hermanos Dunbar viven en la indigencia de un hogar sin adultos cuidando los unos de los otros y...
Author
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
In this poignant, funny, and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world's most beloved storytellers, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family's adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs—a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of animals family.
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us . . . It's love and beasts and
...10) The book thief
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.