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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
Author
Publisher
Quill
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface - a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster...
6) Flight
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of flight and looks at airports, types of aircraft, and the future of air travel.
7) Planets
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to planets, with simple text, graphics, and NASA and European Space Station images.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to some of the most fascinating ancient civilizations in the world's history and the legacies they left behind, from the intriguing world of pharaohs in Ancient Egypt, to the arts of Greece and Rome, to the amazing culture of the Mayans.
Author
Publisher
South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses, Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the dawn. They marvel at the colors and sounds, smells, and memories that come with the opening of the day. Animals and humans alike turn their faces upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to horizon. Dawn is a time to celebrate with a smiling heart, to start a new day in the right way, excited for...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An official handbook for kids who dream of one day becoming a spy or working in the intelligence field. Have you ever wondered what spies really do: What kind of training is involved? Do you have to go to a special school or take a polygraph test? How do you live your 'cover'? How does your work life affect your relationships with your friends and family? Is there danger involved? This fun, fact-filled book answers all these questions and more while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
19) The three pigs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
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