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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
5) Stay close
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Language
English
Description
Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades--
6) Journey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left. Journey searches photographs for answers. He looks for family resemblances in Grandma's slbums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
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Series
Flashback Four volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman's all-new series, which blends fascinating real history with an action-packed adventure, four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic. Their mission? Capture a shot of the sinking ship, then come right back. The only...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away, especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city. New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't pass her...
17) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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Series
Amish bishop mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Amish bishop Henry Lapp eagerly awaits the annual arrival of 20,000 sandhill cranes to the San Luis Valley of Colorado. But his visit to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge reveals more than just a miracle of God's creation. Hidden among the bulrushes and cattails is the body of Sophia Johnson--one of Monte Vista's newest residents and a waitress at the local diner. As the local authorities attempt to unravel the mystery, Henry finds himself...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Cam Jansen and her firends set out to try their luck at the Dime Toss booth at the carnival. Cam and her friend Eric suspect some funny business when the same boy and girl keep winning the big prizes while none of the other kids seem to have any luck.
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