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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Ever since her troubled mother abandoned her, Trix McCabe has preferred to stay on the move. But when she lands with her long-lost relatives, she finds out that the McCabe women have talents like her own that defy explanation: pies that cure all ills, palm-reading that never misses the mark, knowledge of secrets that have never been told. Before long, Trix feels like she might finally have found somewhere she belongs. But when her past comes back...
Author
Series
Bear House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"In a medieval world where the ruling houses are based on the constellations, betrayal, intrigue, and a king's murder force the royal sisters of the Bear House on the run"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A is for Andromeda, our neighbor galaxy. B is for Big Dipper, that's an easy one to see. John Farrell takes kids on a rhyming tour of the night sky, from A to Z, with spectacular full-color photographs and facts about the wonders of space. From distant Andromeda, a galaxy made up of billions of stars, to the constellation of the zodiac, Farrell covers the high points of outer space. How do you find Jupiter or Venus? How does the Moon cause the tides...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
6) Seeing stars
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Illustrated guide to the 88 internationally recognized constellations with stories and legends. Includes key star information, location descriptions, and maps.
7) Stargazers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells what stars are, why they twinkle, how constellations were named, how telescopes are used to study stars, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Eyewitness Stars and Planets handbooks are ideal for field use or as home references. Each photograph has ample identifying information, plus diagrams to provide a comprehensive, concise guide. A practical guide to the night sky that can be used by amateur astronomers anywhere in the world. Features entries on all 88 constellations of the northern and southern hemisphere skies and a set of clear, easy-to-use star charts allow the reader to identify...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Deep in the wood lives a witch queen and her eight tree siren daughters. For centuries, they have harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow their ever reaching kingdom of ash, birch, and oak. Owen Merrick lives at the edge of the forest, mapping the stars for the king in his father's observatory. For years, he has resisted venturing over the garden wall, until one day he must enter the woods to find his missing sister. But...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brilliantly colored paintings illustrate this introduction to constellations and the animals which ancient stargazers imagined as they made their observations of the night sky.
17) Astronomy
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents basic information about the stars, constellations, galaxies, universe, solar system, and the earth. Also discusses famous astronomers and space travel.
Publisher
Symphony in the Flint Hills
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
'In 2019 we are exploring the theme Ad Astra. For the past two years, we have been working with a team of scientists, artists, and musicians to imagine what an event celebrating a new North Star, which will happen one thousand years from now, might look like. The initiative, called Jump!star, has inspired us to think about our state's traditions and aspirations.'-excerpt
20) Love stories
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Offers eighteen love stories by authors including Catherine Cookson, Guy de Maupassant, Colette, Daphne du Maurier, Rosamunde Pilcher, George Gissing, and Ivan Turgenev.
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