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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children"--Book jacket.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School, in all the places her troublemaking brother failed.
44) Sharing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides examples and tips for working things out fairly when two people want the same thing.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived to 100, I couldn't die as long as I was booked." And Shatner is always booked. Still, a brief health scare in 2016 forced him to take stock. After mulling over the lessons he's learned, the places he's been, and all the miracles and strange occurrences he's witnessed over the course of an enduring career in Hollywood and on...
47) Kindness
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Provides examples that teach young children what it means to be kind, and looks at simple ways to show kindness.
49) Amal Unbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
50) Blubber
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
Author
Series
Mitchell and Associates volume 2
Description
Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn't let rules get in his way-in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology.That's why he's the first person Caroline King-who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams-asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their...
Author
Description
Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow....
54) Grandpa Green
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
55) Taking turns
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides examples and tips for working things out when two people want the same thing.
57) Respect
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Photographs and simple text demonstrated to young readers six ways to show respect for family, friends, and neighbors.
58) Counting by 7's
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident" --T.p. verso.
60) Hunted (Book #5)
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
The good news : Zoey's friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren't Neferet's secrets any longer. The bad news : Ancient evil with the face of an angel has been let loose -- that and various other nasties (whose faces aren't so angelic). Grandma Redbird is in trouble. Heath is in trouble. The House of Night is in trouble. Okay, let's face it -- Zoey's whole world is in trouble! But when the trouble comes from a being who...