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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Back in the bad old days, when Billy Graves worked for an anti-crime unit in [the South Bronx] known as the Wild Geese, the NYPD branded him as a cowboy. Now forty, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch. Mostly, his team of detectives conducts a series of holding actions--and after years in police purgatory, Billy is content simply to do his job. But soon after he gets a [4:00] a.m. call about the fatal knifing of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in character and relationships—gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Holly Whites fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding with less than two weeks to go, Holly heads home with a broken heart. Lucky for her, home in historic Mistletoe, Maine is magical during Christmastimeexactly what the doctor prescribed. Except her plan to drown her troubles in peppermints and snickerdoodles is upended when local grouch and president of the Mistletoe Historical Society Margaret Fenwick is bludgeoned and left in the sleigh...
Author
Series
Janitors volume 5
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Spencer and his team of Rebels must face the combined evil of the Founding Witches and the Sweepers, or the world is doomed to fall under the control of the sinister Bureau of Educational Maintenance.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Satisfy the shark-fact feeding frenzy! These torpedo-shaped swimmers are an obsession for many kids. In Everything Sharks, exciting photos depict great whites, hammerheads, and more. Scientists tell hair-raising tales about encounters. With its awesome facts and action-packed images, this book brings kids close to the mysterious lives of sharks. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Stanford White, one of the most famous architects of the erawhose mark on New York City is second to nonewas murdered by Harry K. Thaw in 1906, his death become known as “The Crime of the Century.”But there were other players in this love triangle gone wrong that would play a part in the incredible story of Whites murderer. Chief among them was the ambitious district attorney William Travers Jerome, who had the opportunity to makeor breakhis...
Author
Series
Janitors volume 4
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The stakes have never been higher, and you've never seen squeegees do this before! It is a wild and slightly unsanitary ride as Spencer, Daisy, and the rebels find themselves chased by Mr. Clean's new and terrifying breed of Toxite: the Sweepers. Time is short. With the fabled Manualis Custodem in hand, Spencer must figure out how to summon the founding witches if they ever hope to mop up and save education.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike...
10) Closer to home
Author
Series
Valdemar universe. Herald spy novels volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King's Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spy. Now a Herald in his own right, at the newly established Heralds' Collegium, Mags has found a supportive family, including his Companion Dallen. Although normally a Herald in his first year of Whites would be sent off on circuit, Mags is needed close to home for his abilities as a spy and his powerful Mindspeech...
Author
Series
Janitors volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A secret society of Janitors with wizard-like powers continue their battle, and now, the stakes are even higher.The Bureau of Educational Maintenance is after Alan Zumbro and this time they mean businessdeadly business. Spencer, Daisy, and their little team of rebels must find the source of all magical Glop and destroy it before it can destroy the world as we know it. No small task with the BEM and their monster toxites at their heels. It's a wild...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her situation and flourish. She moved to California and became the first black and first female streetcar operator before following her interest in dance. She became a professional performer in her twenties and...
13) Them: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro street in the world." The story centers around Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracial sex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was also a central factor driving white resistance to the civil...
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