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Author
Series
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at some of the reasons why animals attack or fight, and describes some of these dangerous behaviors in snakes, bears, tigers, wolves, and other animals.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russian-blockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On March 1, 1893, Princess Ka'iulani, 17, stepped onto the pier at New York City, realizing she stood at a crossroads in history. This biography tells the fascinating story of Princess Ka'iulani's life and courageous fight for Hawaiian independence. Using newly translated journals and letters, Sharon Linnea introduces young readers to the most beloved figure in Hawaiian history, and one of America's most overlooked Christian heroines. 30 photos.
Author
Series
Publisher
One Caring Place, Abbey Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teaches children fourteen reassuring lessons about grief, explaining, for example, that crying and mixed-up feelings are okay, and features illustrations of a young elf going through the same process as the young reader.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, ... Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity ... [Her] story takes her to Syria where she is sold to a high-ranking ISIS commander, ... kept as a house slave, raped, and routinely assaulted ... In captivity, she draws on memories...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the amazing life of William Shakespeare, vividly described in words and pictures, with graphic dramatisations of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This picture book biography in verse tells the story of Mary Hamilton, an African American woman and Civil Rights activist, who was found to be in contempt of court when she would not respond to questions from an Alabama judge who used only her first name, while calling white people "Mr.," "Mrs.," or "Miss." The NAACP took her case, which appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ruled in Mary Hamilton's favor." --
Author
Series
Lincoln lawyer volume 7
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.
Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result in a resurrection walk.
When Bosch finds a needle in the haystack - a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff's deputy - they discover evidence that doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This warm and humorous collection presents much-loved favorites such as The Princess and the Pea from Denmark and less familiar figures including The Mountain Princess from Persia and The Horned Snake's Wife from the Iroquois of North America.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cat in the Hat makes another surprise appearance at Dick and Sally's house -- only this time he makes his entrance riding atop a brachiosaurus! Soon, he's off, along with Dick and Sally, millions of years back in time to see how fossils were created. Then it's on to a tour through the Cat's own Super Dino Museum -- a fabulous place where the correct pronunciation of a dinosaur's name wins a peek at the real living thing.
Author
Publisher
UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
2017 ,2013, ℗♭2011.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sir Alfred has a terrible secret. A secret that should never ever be kept. But who will poor little sir Alfred tell? Who can he trust? This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up."--Page 4 of cover.
"This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up. We recommend that children be read this story...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes an apple tree as it grows leaves and flowers and then produces its fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. Includes a recipe for apple pie.
58) One tiny turtle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the loggerhead turtles journey. It begins with one tiny turtle...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little...
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