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22) Off & away
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daughter of a ocean-faring delivery man who has enjoyed many adventures while delivering messages in bottles must conquer her fear of sailing alone when her father catches a bad cold, requiring her to assume his responsibilities on the high seas. By the creator of Explorers of the Wild. 20,000 first printing.
24) Snail Mail
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nothing Says Love Like an Old-Fashioned Letter. A long, long time ago, before email and texting, the mail was delivered in a much slower way-it was called Snail Mail (because some thought it was delivered by a snail). Although it took much longer, everyone agreed that letters were a little more special when they were delivered by Snail Mail. They might be handwritten. They might include a drawing. They might even contain a surprise inside! One such...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic...
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 23
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
27) The Pony Express
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is the fourth of five complete online practice 473E Batteries that offer preparation for the format, content, and timing of each section of the official 473E. Includes an instant score report that will help identify your strengths and weaknesses." --
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is the third of five complete online practice 473E Batteries that offer preparation for the format, content, and timing of each section of the official 473E. Includes an instant score report that will help identify your strengths and weaknesses." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates how, in 1861, a boy named Charlie Miller became the youngest rider for the Pony Express, a mail service that linked the east and west coasts of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Inside the walls of the Dead Letters Depot, letter detectives work to solve mysteries. They study missing zip codes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street namesall the many twists of fate behind missed birthdays, broken hearts, unheard confessions, pointless accusations, unpaid bills, unanswered prayers. Their mission is to unite lost mail with its intended recipients.But when letters arrive...
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith and the crew of the Impossible Postal Express must race through the Uncanny Valley and the Cloud Forge to save the Union--and Trollville--from a new threat.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her aunt and being dumped by her fiance, Cassie Miller returns to her small hometown in the Berkshires. When somebody breaks into the post office where she works and an unidentified body is found in the woods, Cassie finds hereself drawn into the case.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Martin Sproale is a mild-mannered assistant postmaster who lives with his mother, and has only one unconventional hobby: he is obsessed with the life of Ernest Hemingway. When a slick upstart is appointed postmaster over his head, steals his girlfriend, and fires the elderly postal employees, Martin decides to stand up for himself the way Hemingway would, and plots his revenge.
Martin Sproale, a mild-mannered postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gossamer Network presents a new history of the American state and its efforts to conquer, occupy, and integrate the western United States between the 1860s and early 1900s. The success of this project depended on an unassuming government institution: the U.S. Post. As millions of settlers rushed into remote corners of the region, they relied on the mail to stay connected to the wider world. Letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions...
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