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123) Invitation only
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Reed finds herself blackmailed and forced to uncover the secrets of the Billings Girls.
124) Democracy in America
Author
Series
Description
The Henry Reeve text (1945) as revised by Francis Bowen. Includes index.
The Henry Reeve text as revised by Francis Bowen. Includes index and appendices
125) Tyrannosaurus rex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn about the Tyrannosaurus Rex, what it ate and where it was found.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A profoundly moving nonfiction picture book about tragedy, hope, and healing from the award-winning author. Sometimes bad things happen, and you have to tell everyone. Sometimes terrible things happen, and everybody knows. On April 19, 1995, something terrible happened in Oklahoma City: a bomb exploded, and people were hurt and killed. But that was not the end of the story. Those who survived--and those who were forever changed--shared their stories...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
When the San Jose Mine collapsed outside of Copiapo, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of the miners' experiences below the Earth's surface, and the lives that led them there, has never been heard, until now.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Description
Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside. Now, twenty years later, Celia is unable to consciously keep her secret any longer. Despite her success, her personal life has fallen stagnant, and, buried under the weight of her awful past, Celia returns to her hometown to confess her sins.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. According to this former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, and former Minnesota governor, the media is complicit in these acts of deception. For too long, the mainstream press has refused to consider alternate possibilities and to ask the tough questions. In Ventura's eyes, the murder of Abraham Lincoln and the assassinations...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While Massie and Alicia concentrate on finding the key to the secret room at Octavian Country Day School, Kristen struggles with new teammates, Dylan continues to obsess over her weight, and Claire questions the sacrifices she has to make to remain a Hollywood starlet.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
137) Rhymes with Witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
High school freshman Jane believes that she would do anything to be popular until she is selected to be in the school's most exclusive clique and learns that popularity has a price.
138) Future shock
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Pub. Date
c1970
Description
Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.
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Description
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The author accuses compulsory education methods of stifling imaginations and critical thinking skills, and discusses individuals such as Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, who are considered to have exceptional minds, even though they but did not follow traditional education paths