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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result...
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Building walls that separate us from others is as old as humanity. People have built walls to keep others out for thousands of years, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to security fences along the US-Mexico border. But did you know they've also been built to keep people in, to grow food, to control nature and to collect taxes? Sometimes they've helped people and kept communities safe, but they've also created inequity and done more...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A knight who feels secure on his side of the wall that divides his book discovers that his side is not as safe as he thought, and the other side is not as threatening.
11) Talking walls
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In an isolated town that closely resembles the West Bank, thirteen-year-old Joshua discovers that his world may not be as it seems; that his people may be aggressors rather than victims; and that he must stand up to his stepfather and forge his own sense of right and wrong.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The ancient city of Akka, along the northern coast of Israel, is the home to a melting pot of Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha'i. For centuries its surrounding forty-foot sea wall has protected its citizens and repelled invaders. As the Old City endures harsh economic pressures and vast social changes, Palestinian families who have lived here for generations are being pressured to leave. Captures the spirit of Akka's Arab residents and the leap...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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“Verdes unique style and simple yet increasingly important messages of peace, mindfulness, and community make her stories a must-share...A must-purchase.” School Library Journal (starred review) “Walls do not just create barriers and divide spaces. They can be canvases for artmaking; opportunities to shape a community.” The Horn Book “This story of urban renewal sends a welcome double message by Verde: neighbors and neighborhoods are more...
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