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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle--they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous...
47) Pink and Say
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude. And yet, according to journalist (and Texan) Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning teacher and bestselling author Clark ("The Essential 55") presents a riveting new book providing rules for parents and teachers to help kids succeed in school.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two books in one, ... addresses both the host's and the guest's needs by establishing the ground rules for successful visits. From hosting your in-laws for the weekend to spending a week with family or friends, you will find good, commonsense ideas that will ensure a fabulous time for both host and guest"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. Isaacson also describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.
58) Fishing
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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