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Owl diaries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Warm Hearts Day is approaching and Eva has been making lots of fun gifts and treats for her friends, but as the big party at the Old Oak Tree nears, she realizes that she has neglected to make any gifts for her family.
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"Ashley Davison, a graduate student in California, desperately wants to spend the holidays with her family in Seattle. Dashiell Sutherland, a former army intelligence officer, has a job interview in Seattle and must arrive by December 23. Though frantic to book a last-minute flight out of San Francisco, both are out of luck: Every flight is full, and there's only one rental car available. Ashley and Dash reluctantly decide to share the car, but neither...
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2022.
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It's mid-December and for the fifth year, at the Sullivans' lonely brownstone in Harlem, stockings go un-stuffed, tinsel un-strewn, gifts un-bought, mistletoe un-hung, chestnuts un-roasted, carols un-played, cookies un-cooked and a tree un-visible. But this year, a mysterious someone is sending gifts to widower Henry Sullivan and his two children, Will and Ella. These gifts are... strange. Noisy. And there's no returning them. First, a small beaked...
5) The Star
Pub. Date
2018
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A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Charlie Brown is in a dilemma when Peppermint Pattie invites herself and several friends to his house for Thanksgiving dinner. The gang celebrates Thanksgiving Peanuts-style in this paperback storybook adapted from the Emmy award-winning television special. Charlie Brown is in charge of the cooking. Luckily, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy, Linus, and Woodstock pitch in and help him create a unique Thanksgiving dinner that they will never forget--and for...
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Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to pay their last respects, Duff MacCallister saddles up to go after the killers. He returns with two outlaws - a cold-blooded, nasty pair of snakes, Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the...
10) Christmas child
Pub. Date
2010
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As Christmas draws near, Jack finds himself disconnecting from the holidays, his job, and ultimately his wife. His latest assignment as a journalist takes him to Dallas, but a mysterious photograph draws him to the town of Clearwater, Texas. It is here he discovers the town's life-sized, intricately carved nativity. As Jack delves into the mysteries surrounding the nativity and its creator, he uncovers secrets from his past, reunites with his family,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway.
The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents?
The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents...
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It's December 1890. A Texas Ranger named Big Ben Conyers has a deal with a Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with Indians and rustlers and a blizzard....
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[2023]
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Who says the holidays only happen in the winter? Every day's a holiday when you live in a world as diverse as ours! From Juneteenth to Vesak, and Yom Kippur to ̕Da de las Muertos, the festivities never end. Come and join us and learn about eighteen holidays celebrated by a diverse group of children in this inviting and joyful picture book. Holidays featured include: Seollal, Holi, Nowruz, Passover, Vaisakhi, Vesak, Juneteenth, Homecoming, Onam, Obon,...
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Sit! Stay! Speak! author Annie England Noblin's novel takes one woman starting over, adds an aging pug named Teddy Roosevelt, and proves the power of a well-baked dog treat.All she wants is a settled-down life. What she gets is a dog--and a whole new normal . . . There he stood in the doorway: overweight, depressed and nearly homeless--a pug named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was Brydie Benson's latest problem, arriving on top of her messy divorce and sudden...
Pub. Date
2019.
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A quirky New Zealand mystery that follows Dl Mike Shepherd, who arrives in the seemingly peaceful town of Brokenwood with a classic car, a country music collection, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. Shepherd soon discovers that Brokenwood is full of secrets and suspicions. In this Christmas episode, the mayor is murdered in his home after the annual holiday parade, and Shepherd and his assistant Kristin Sims must solve a Christmas murder.
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2021.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church"--Provided by publisher.