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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
C.J., who aspires to be as great a jazz musician as his uncle, searches for Uncle Click's hat in preparation for an important photograph and inadvertently gathers some of the greatest musicians of 1950s Harlem to join in on the picture.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cam uses her photographic memory, with help from her friend Eric and his twin sisters, to solve the mystery of Poochie, a famous canine television star.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A letter inviting Sara's mother and grandmother to come from Poland to America and mentioning a mysterious photograph arouses Sara's curiosity and leads her to discover a family secret.
7) Double down
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe continue to work undercover as part of teen movie star Justin Carraway's entourage as they try to solve the murder of a celebrity photographer.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 24
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using her photographic memory Cam Jansen joins Eric in solving the mystery of how some of the school computers were stolen.
Author
Series
Templar novels (Paul Christopher) volume 2
Publisher
Signet/New American Library
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece--and Rafi's financée--Peggy has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis--murderous fanatics who worship a dead god. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find...
11) Jaws 2
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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It's been four years since that marauding great white shark terrorized the small summer resort of Amity; but the shark that Police Chief Brody destroyed wasn't the only one in the ocean! The same heart-stopping suspense and gripping adventure that enthralled movie audiences throughout the world in Jaws returns in this worthy sequel to that film classic.
12) Duel
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A traveling businessman is menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him!
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000] ©1999
Language
English
Description
In the upper reaches of the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers an amphibious creature, a living missing link. The creature is captured and falls in love with the female assistant of the leader of the research team. The lonely creature kidnaps her, and the scientist mounts an effort to reclaim his sweetheart and return the creature to his watery home.
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English
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Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
15) Cabaret
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time The Velveteen Rabbit and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A quiet coastal village in post-World War II America is shaken when the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon. Five years after the war, Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an Allied unit in England, returns to her hometown in Maine. Jobless and discouraged but stubbornly resourceful, she's starting over in the same coastal village where her life once went so wrong. Waiting...
Author
Series
Harry Ingram mystery volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007] c2006
Language
English
Description
Natural causes: While Lynley is suspended, pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing, Havers teams up with a different Detective Inspector, Fiona Knight, to investigate the drowning of a young woman in her car.
One guilty deed: Lynley is reinstated, and he, Havers, and their colleague Detective Constable Winston Nkata are trying to catch a crime boss. But when their star witness is found shot dead at Havers' childhood holiday retreat, she becomes...
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