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1) Skylark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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620L
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
2) Skylark
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Skylark trilogy volume 1
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For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley believed in a lie. Now she must escape the only world she's ever knownor face a fate more unimaginable than death.
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This epic space opera from the father of the genre is an "adventure of an unprecedented kind . . . The first great 'classic' of American science fiction" (Isaac Asimov).
From Science Fiction– and Fantasy Hall of Fame–inductee E. E. Smith, The Skylark of Space chronicles the groundbreaking adventures of scientist Richard Seaton. After stumbling upon the secrets of atomic energy during a laboratory accident, Seaton partners with wealthy...
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"Skylark Three" (1948) is the second book in the Skylark series and is set a year after the events of The Skylark of Space, during which year antagonist Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne has used the wealth obtained in the previous book to buy a controlling interest in the story's 'World Steel Corporation', a large company known for its ruthless attitude. When the story begins DuQuesne announces a long absence from Earth, to find another species more knowledgeable...
5) Skylark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Angie lives in an old car with her brother and mother. Homeless after their father left to find work, the family struggles to stay together and live as normally as possible. It is difficult though. Between avoiding the police and finding new places to park each night, it is a constant struggle. When Angie discovers slam poetry, she finds a new way to express herself and find meaning and comfort in a confusing world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
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Skylark Three by E. E. Doc Smith is a riveting continuation of the epic Skylark series that will transport readers to new realms of wonder and excitement. Join our intrepid protagonist as he embarks on a thrilling interstellar adventure, encountering strange alien civilizations, mind-bending technologies, and heart-pounding action along the way. With its blend of high-octane space battles, intricate world-building, and thought-provoking themes, Skylark...
8) Skylark
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Earth, 2404 AD: Much of Canada has been annexed by an alien force known as the daemon. Raised in a Vancouver ghetto on the edge of daemon territory, Bennejin Skye is adopted into the United Space Corps and becomes the commander of the highly successful, if somewhat maverick, Strategic Team 6. When the outermost interstellar Way Station suddenly ceases communications with Earth, Commander Skye and Team 6 are sent to investigate. They discover a new...
9) Skylark
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Hollywood in 1948. World war two had ended three years ago, but crime is still growing rampant on the streets. Detective Luca Valiant returns home from war a broken man, haunted by memories of his duty. He is strong willed and passionate about his job but keeps his soldier days hidden behind a thick wall. Young women start showing up around the city shot point blank in the chest, found with stolen morphine ampoules on their person. Luca fears it might...
10) Skylark
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An international romance novel set in Rome and New York during the turbulent 1960's. It deals with love thrown away and then regretted amid social and political upheaval across two continents.
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A Saskwyan flight mechanic with uncanny luck, seventeen-year-old Robin Arianhod grew up in the shadow of a decade-long war. But the skies are stalked by the Coyote-a ruthless Klonn pilot who picks off crippled airships and retreating soldiers. And as the only person to have survived an aerial dance with Saskwya's greatest scourge, Robin has earned his attention. As a pilot, Robin is good. But the Coyote is better.
When he shoots her down and...
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Raised by seafaring pirates, Belladonna Skylark has never known her family. But she's about to discover her destiny-a binding prophecy that makes her want to run and hide.
Pirate Captain Starlene was the one person Belladonna considered a parent-or, at least, a surrogate caregiver-on the Zodiac, which makes the captain's death all the more painful. The loss of Starlene thrusts Belladonna's life into the changing winds of leadership as she takes over...
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Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the...
14) The Skylark
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This is a collection of Haiku poems with watercolour illustrations manifested with the heartfelt plea that as one we can regain the balance of nature.
'What if there is no bird song?'
Then it's too late. We haven't listened and we haven't acted.
'Greed feeds corruption
A continual circle
Corruption feeds greed
Disorder then chaos
As everything will dissolve Into entropy.'
15) Soaring Skylark
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In the year 1968, Alejandra meets Guillermo, whom he married 12 years later and had a happy, full and enviable marriage in front of the eyes of everyone. They formed a beautiful family with 5 sons, created one of the most important educational companies in the country and one of the most representatives of Latin America. When they had 32 years of marriage, suddenly, one day, that fairytale marriage ends, leaving everyone perplexed. Soaring skylark...
16) The Skylarks
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'The Skylarks' transports us to a little hamlet hidden away in the mountainous region of the south of Granada, Spain: such a small town that no one ever bothered naming it and was simply known as La Villa. It's the start of the 1970s and the locals are doing all they can to combat the mass exodus of the rural areas.
Far from the harsh reality of the adults, three boys; Ricardo, Edmundo and Fernando, live life from one mischief to the next or spending...
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