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Elizabeth Gilbert "offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
3) Sabriel
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens...
Author
Series
Deltora quest volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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"The evil Shadow Lord has become aware that Lief, Barda, and Jasmaine are searching for the seven lost gems of the magic Belt of Deltora. He knows that the Belt's power will threaten his terrifying rule if the gems can be returned to it."
Author
Series
Deltora quest volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Lief, Barda and Jasmine are on an important mission to save the land of Deltora from the evil Shadow Lord. They must find all seven stones from the magic belt of Deltora. The have already found the golden topaz, but now they mus travel through the region ruled by the monster-soceress Thaegan to find the second stone.
Author
Series
Deltora quest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The evil Shadow Lord is planning to take over the land of Deltora and enslave all its people. In order to stop him 16-year old Lief and former palace guard Barda must find all seven stones from the magic belt of Deltora.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
555 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The evil Shadow Lord is planning to take over the land of Deltora and enslave all its people. In order to stop him 16-year old Lief and his companions must find all seven stones from the magic belt of Deltora.
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Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Edition
Physical Desc
viii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases--misperceptions of the world--and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even the most hard-core skeptic indulges in magical thinking all the time--and it's crucial to our survival. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Hutson shows us that magical thinking has been so useful to us that it's hardwired into our brains. It encourages us to...
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