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1) Born A Crime
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
3) All clear
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Series
Language
English
Description
When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
4) Verity
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Language
English
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Description
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
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The life of Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, in a new, illustrated edition of the Newbery Honor classic.
Clara Ingram Judson's Newbery Honor Book is a richly drawn biography of Abraham Lincoln from his backwoods boyhood, to his days as a shopkeeper and lawyer, his entry into politics, and finally through his extraordinary presidency and tragic assassination. Judson presents Lincoln as he was--the plain-spoken and practical man, often...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
After the loss of her parents, Serenity Smith receives an unexpected letter from a relative she's never met. When she travels all the way from Washington, D.C., to the family's estate in the Brittany region of France, she's greeted with cold politeness by the Comtesse de Kergallen -- her grandmother -- and the charming, insufferable Christophe. As she learns of the wild grievances they hold against her parents, Serenity is determined to prove the...
7) The Ickabog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.
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Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts shines the spotlight on a Broadway star's unexpected romance in the second novel in the O'Hurley series.
As one of the Great White Way's shining lights, Maddy O'Hurley has plenty to keep her busy, including rehearsals for a new musical. But a chance meeting with the show's financial backer, recording mogul Reed Valentine, proves to be a delicious distraction...
A NORA ROBERTS...
As one of the Great White Way's shining lights, Maddy O'Hurley has plenty to keep her busy, including rehearsals for a new musical. But a chance meeting with the show's financial backer, recording mogul Reed Valentine, proves to be a delicious distraction...
A NORA ROBERTS...
9) The 290
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, originally called simply the 290, a Confederate ship which sails the Atlantic destroying Union vessels. Includes facts about the ship's history and Captain Raphael Semmes.