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(0)Bonnie Christensen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Elvis Presley, perhaps better known as the King of Rock and Roll, left an amazing legacy on the worldwide music scene. But before Elvis became The King, he was just a shy kid growing up in a poor family in Mississippi. From an early age singing in church, Elvis used music as a form of hope, a means of getting by. He soon created his own style that brought together classes and races and lifted people's spirits. His mark was indelible. He remains the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"In 9th century China, a little girl sends a small jade pebble to travel with her father along the Silk Road. The pebble passes from his hand all the way to the Republic of Venice, the end of the Silk Road, where a boy cherishes it and sees the value of this gift from a girl at the end of the road"--
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English
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Born into a travelling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perserverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze.
Bonnie Christensen's gorgeous oil paintings and jazzy, syncopated...
6) Django
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Language
English
Description
From extreme poverty in a gypsy camp, through a debilitating injury, Django Reinhardt overcame tremendous obstacles to become a world-renowned, much beloved and highly acclaimed jazz guitarist. This production captures the spirit of the man, his music and his inspiring life story.
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Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From extreme poverty in a gypsy camp, through a debilitating injury, Django Reinhardt overcame tremendous obstacles to become a world-renowned, much beloved and highly acclaimed jazz guitarist. This production captures the spirit of the man, his music and his inspiring life story.
8) Rebus riot
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of verses that use pictures in place of some words.
9) I, Galileo
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated profile of the Italian scientist is presented from a first-person perspective that surveys his remarkable achievements while providing coverage of his world-changing ideas about a heliocentric solar system and his imprisonment for heresy.
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Language
English
Description
Take a chilling tour of spooky New England legends . . . Visit Vermont with this comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories, and strange-but-true facts-and enjoy supernatural side trips to the surrounding areas of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Quebec-with this delightful guide to the region's haunted history. From Chittenden's Ghost Shop to the Hubbardton Horror to the Mystery of the Bennington Triangle, Green...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old boy sets off with his father from their farm in Tennessee to join the Confederate forces on their way to fight at Gettysburg. Told in the form of diary entries.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him.
