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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 68
Language
English
Description
"Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey - an experience that teaches him to question...
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The author describes his motorcycle journey through Minnesota and the Rockies to the Alaskan Highway, recalling the events in his life that have made him the man he is today.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination...
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination...
17) Grayson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and her efforts to find the baby's mother.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
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