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541) The water bears
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Newt Gomez has a thing with bears. Last year, he survived a bear attack. And this year, he finds an unusual bear statue that just might grant wishes. Newt's best friend, Ethan, notices a wishbone on the statue and decides to make a wish. When it comes true, Newt thinks it's a coincidence. Even as more people wish on the bear and their wishes come true, Newt is not convinced. But Newt has a wish too: while he loves his home on eccentric Murphy Island,...
542) An island: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Anne loves having pretend tea parties by herself. She even decorates her room with branches and colorful leaves for the occasion. Marilla Cuthbert, who adopted Anne in the last year, wishes Anne would act a little more sensibly. One day, Marilla comes up with a plan to keep Anne out of mischief -- Anne can host her very own tea party and invite her kindred spirit, Diana Barry! Anne is thrilled, and sets out to host the most lovely and grown-uppish...
544) Porch lights
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivan's Island.
545) Anne arrives
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station -- imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the Cuthberts' at risk -- particularly if nosy neighbor Mrs. Lynde has anything to say about it -- Anne will have to learn patience, understanding and what it takes to make Green Gables her true home.
Author
Series
Treasure chest (Ann Hood) volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An old coin in The Treasure Chest transports twins Felix and Maisie to the island of St. Croix in 1772, where they meet seventeen-year-old Alexander Hamilton who is about to embark on a journey to New York.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
549) Island of Thieves
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
550) Surfing for secrets
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a pirate gets shipwrecked on Mouse Island, Geronimo Stilton and his family offer to help the stranger look for a hidden treasure.
551) Lola
Author
Publisher
Dial Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
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Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Description
Del exitoso autor en ventas segãaun el New York Times y ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Junot Dãaiaz, nos llega su primer ãaalbum ilustrado acerca de la magia de los recuerdos y el poder infinito de la imaginaciãaon, ¥ahora en espaèanol! Todos los nièanos en la escuela de Lola venãaian de otra parte. Era una escuela de lugares lejanos. Asãai que cuando la maestra de Lola pide a sus alumnos que hagan un dibujo del lugar del que emigraron sus...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah and Aidan begin to decipher a mysterious document that refers to the origins of Peter Pan and are suddenly pursued by a being that can take any form and will stop at nothing to get what it wants from them.
554) Lungfish: a novel
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands"--
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An American journalist, in search of the prostitute he'd loved and left behind, finds himself on an island where demons and whores rule the night.
Set in nineteenth century Japan, an American man searching for the prostitute he loved and left behind comes upon a deformed woman who tells a tale about the woman he loved.
Author
Publisher
Getty Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Illustrator Kaz Rowe’s graphic biography Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun, reveals how the creative and courageous Surrealist artist championed freedom at every turn, from rejecting gender norms and finding queer love to risking death to sabotage the Nazis. At the turn of the 20th century in Nantes, France, Lucy Schwob met Suzanne Malherbe, and lightning struck. The two became partners both artistically and romantically and...
558) American star
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
559) Inside a coral reef
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics and ecosystem of a coral reef and how such a habitat may be conserved.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--
"The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the...
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