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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government...
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Neapolitan novels volume 2
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English
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Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A Yellowstone origin story introduces a new generation of the Dutton family as they explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home. The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. This release features all eight episodes of season one plus over...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Relates the story of eight American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima during World War II, one of whom was rescued and later became president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops.
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Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Join Great British Bake Off sensation Nadiya Hussain for scrumptious stories and delicious bakes that all the family can enjoy.A unique combination of storybook and cookbook, with all recipes and stories devised and written by Nadiya herself, Nadiya's Bake Me a Story brings families into the kitchen to spend time together sharing stories and cooking. Combining playful photography of Nadiya and her children with vibrant illustrations by Clair Rossiter,...
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The Unnamed Press
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English
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A collection of short stories that showcases modern day adventurers in tales about an Osage woman who hides her origins while attempting to social climb in midcentury Oklahoma and a young professional who sees the ghosts of his ancestors.
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IDW
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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There aren't many ways someone like Han, a young scrumrat raised in the streets of Corellia, can leave his planet and become a great pilot, and none of them are easy. But when Han finally makes it, it sets up a life-changing journey that will turn him, and his future co-pilot Chewbacca, into the most famous smugglers in the galaxy. Capturing the galaxy-spanning action of Solo, experience the movie as a beautiful graphic novel combining the epic wonder...
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.
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English
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Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife. Now, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth--even if it destroys the people he loves.
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Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 10
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind. But as long as he's trapped in a life of poverty and crime--and under the thumb of the sinister Lady Proxima and her brutal street gang--reaching the distant stars seems impossible. When Han tries to escape with his girlfriend and partner-in-crime, Qi'ra, he makes it out--but she doesn't. Desperate...
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