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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
2) Deathwatch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
On a cattle drive in the desert on the night before Cowboy Ned's birthday, his horse Andy goes in search of a birthday cake, which he thinks will make Ned's birthday complete. It's Cowboy Ned's birthday! His trusty dapple gray steed, Andy, knows that the best thing to have on your birthday is a birthday cake. While Cowboy Ned sleeps soundly, Andy wanders across the desert in search of a birthday surprise for his friend and along the way discovers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
7) Tumble
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the Depth of the Storm's Shadow, Only Truth Can Light Her Way Having escaped Egypt with the other Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is now living in freedom at the foot of Mt. Sinai, upon which rests the fiery glowing Cloud containing the shekinah glory of God. When the people disobey Yahweh and build a golden idol, the ensuing chaos gives Shira an unexpected opportunity to learn the arts of midwifery. Although her mother wishes for her to continue...
9) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2018: Luciana volume 3
Girl of the year. 2018 Luciana volume 3
American girls collection. Luciana volume 3
Girl of the year. Luciana volume 3
Girl of the year. 2018 Luciana volume 3
American girls collection. Luciana volume 3
Girl of the year. Luciana volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In her third story, Luciana and her family are headed to Chile for winter break. Luci can't wait to see her cousins - but the reunion doesn't go as planned, and Luci feels like an outsider in her own family. Just then she receives a surprise invite from Claire Jacobs, her frenemy from astronaut training camp, to join her at the Mars habitat in the desert and watch NASA scientists at work. It's an offer too good to refuse, so Luci decides to leave...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence--a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's...
12) Medicine walk
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
After his father's heart attack and the resulting crash of their small plane, Burr must travel alone through forty miles of summer desert with little food and water.
14) Coyote dreams
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
At night coyotes come quietly to the garden wall, bringing with them their desert world of sand, sagebrush, lizards, and rocks.
15) Dixie & Sandy
Author
Series
Dixie Morris animal adventures volume 4
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Dixie and Aunt Sarah visit the desert homeland of Dixie's new friend Aimee, they experience life in a desert tent, watch a camel race, and get lost in a sandstorm.
Author
Series
Rawhide Robinson novels volume 3
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Rawhide Robinson sails across the sea to help the Army acquire camels for military service in the desert Southwest. In America, the ungainly camels cause nothing but upheaval and a desert challenge is mounted"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
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