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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Despite disagreements on the wisdom of the adventure, Rainbow Tinseltail and the other unicorns set out for Snowbelle Mountain to find out if Yetis are real--and when they get caught in a blizzard and take shelter in a cave they find the answer to their quest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. At the age of four, Mila fell from a refugee craft and was lost in the ocean between Cuba and Florida. Until her rescue eight years later, she lived as a wild child of the sea. As Mila now learns to communicate and deal with the complexities of human feelings, she develops an understanding of a strange...
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Get the Summary of David Sedaris's A Carnival of Snackery in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Carnival of Snackery" by David Sedaris is a compilation of diary entries that provide a window into the author's life, filled with humor, cultural observations, and personal reflections. Sedaris recounts dining with friends in London, witnessing a racial exchange on a bus, and experiencing anti-war sentiments in Paris....
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A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.
A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achieve his dream of becoming a serious novelist. It was not until 1988 that his first novel, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain, was published. Twelve...
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new diary involving Angeline, her "flawless" friend.
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English
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S J Parker has spent many years on America's Death Row. This book is a collection of short stories and poetry that he has written during the time he has been incarcerated. Many of these stories have been entered into Prison writing competitions and have won prizes. Inside you will find stories dealing with all aspects of prison life, from how they deal with mental health to how friendships are formed inside and how easily they can crumble. To tales...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Nurk, a sort-of brave shrew, packs up a few pairs of clean socks and sails off on an accidental adventure, guided by wisdom found in the journal of his famously brave and fierce grandmother, Lady Surka the warrior shrew.
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California diaries volume 10
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English
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Ducky works hard to be the best friend possible. But when it comes to Alex, who is very depressed, Ducky doesn't seem to be able to do enough.
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English
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Dr. Pam Chubbuck, a world-wide respected therapist, has written the most comprehensive book to date on how to deal with the experience of losing a father. The workbook/art therapy aspect in Goodbye, Dad. I'll Always Love You is genius! There is no better way to help youngsters through their trauma than the combined art, writing, and emotional movement processes that Dr. Chubbuck masterfully shows us. Part one is for Kids. Part two, is for all caregivers:...
11) Be that way
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Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year of her life in mid-90s Asheville, North Carolina, which she records through prose and illustration.
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In the earliest published diaries of Ned Rorem, the acclaimed American composer recalls a bygone era and its luminaries, celebrates the creative process, and examines the gay culture of Europe and the US during the 1950s One of America's most significant contemporary composers, Ned Rorem is also widely acclaimed as a diarist of unique insight and refreshing candor. Together, his Paris Diary, first published in 1966, and The New York Diary, which followed...
13) Invasion
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Ukrainian
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Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhensky had never written documentary prose before, only fiction. They had never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fiction that Oldie is used to. Different language, different style, according to the circumstances. These notes were written in cities under fire, in basements and bomb shelters, on evacuation trains and buses, in rented apartments during short pauses of...
14) Ode to Love
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"A drop of PURE LOVEcontains an ocean of transformative power -never underestimate the ripple effect…Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Quilled Ink Review. A pure labour of Love, we could think of no better way to begin than on that note - Ode to Love.Within these pages, you will find an eclectic mix of accomplished writers from across the world, some of whom we have the honour and privilege to publish for the very first time. And yet, the...
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Español
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En 1967, después de una sesión con un psiquiatra al que nunca había visto antes, Susanna Kaysen, de dieciocho años, fue internada en el Hospital McLean. Pasó la mayor parte de los dos años siguientes en la sala de chicas de un hospital psiquiátrico muy reconocido por haber tenido entre sus pacientes a celebridades como Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor y Ray Charles.
Las memorias de Kaysen nos ofrecen un retrato vívido de un...
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E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing...
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Begin transmission...
Running from May 2018 to June 2020, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.
Readers received updates straight from A.P. Fuchs that were meant to entertain, educate, and inform.
The Long Year Five was a long time in the making with A.P. Fuchs battling an illness which prevented him from sending out newsletters every week. During this tumultous time, Fuchs eventually got better and continued the tradition...
18) 31 Fields
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A little girl full of dreams sinks into sleep as her mother whispers a fairy tale to her ear-a woman who leaves everything behind and travels to Budva. An orphan who lives in Osijek with his uncle dreams of becoming a world-famous writer. A beautiful woman finds out she's pregnant. A football player has been sending letters for decades to the so-called 'Mr. Smith'. Is it possible that these people-who are on their paths in different time periods are...
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Faso, ¿tenés? is volume 7 of the series On Being, and the second bilingual book of the series. It spans year two of the protagonist Ana's adventures in South America and her trip back home to the States. On Being is a psychological, metaphysical, self-referential, astrological, diary case history, serving as a qualitative, longitudinal research project investigating what it means to be. Basically, I, J. Guzmán (as the protagonist Ana) psychoanalyze...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Seventh grade is going to be Iveliz's year. She's going to make a new friend and help her abuela Mimi get setlled after moving from Puerto Rico. And she is not going to get into any more trouble at school... Except is that what happens? Of course not. Because no matter how hard Iveliz tries, sometimes people say things that just make her so mad. And worse, Mimi keeps saying Iveliz's medicine is unnecessary - even though it helps Iveliz feel less...
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