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Newbery Honor Book volume 1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Armand is a homeless man in Paris who is taken in by a lonely little family which is also homeless. He has no use for the little "starlings" that would take over his heart, but he falls in love with them and helps them through the winter.
3) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
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Carlisle McMillan, a traveler and master carpenter seeking a place of quiet amid the grinding roar of progress. Near Wolf Butte, a strange and apparently haunted monolith, he finds his quiet, or so he believes, and begins rebuilding a decrepit house as a tribute to the gruff old man who taught him a carpenter's skills, rebuilding his life at the same time. He finds two very different, independent women: Gally Deveraux, who works at a diner in Salamander...
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 7
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the throat-slashing murders, in London's St. Matthew's church, of Sir Paul Berowne, a former Minister of State, and a tramp named Harry Mack, gruesome killings that lead Dalgliesh along a most unusual trail in search of a murderer.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"While a life of adventure has traditionally been reserved for the rich and the sponsored, to the dirtbag, it's a birthright for the masses. Partly a celebration of an underappreciated subculture of hiker trash, ski bums, and vagabonds, and partly a 'how to' guide for adventure on the cheap, The Dirtbag's Guide to Life is the first solid attempt to define an outdoor movement that has taken root in backpacker hostels, long trails, and climbing crags...
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Series
Sidewinders volume 5
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Scratch Morton and Bo Creel set out on a dangerous mission in the midst of a winter storm to reclaim stolen property--including gold, US Army soldiers, and a young widow--from the Devils of Deadwood.
12) Nail soup
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A traveler stopping at a lonely cottage pulls a rusty nail from his pocket and starts to make nail soup for a grumpy old woman--proving that a merry heart and generous soul produce far better results than whines and demands.
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The kid: Considered one of Charlie Chaplin's best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coogan, who plays a boy cared for by The Tramp when he's abandoned by his mother, Edna (Edna Purviance). Later, Edna has a change of heart and circumstances and aches to be reunited with her son. When she finds him and wrests him from The Tramp, it makes for what turned out be one of the most heart-wrenching scenes ever included in a comedy.
Tillie's...
14) Lost boy found
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"In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not...
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
"Stacy Richardson is a feisty microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the University's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where a super-secret bio-weapons lab run by Admiral James G. Zoll and known as the Devil's Workshop is located."--BOOK JACKET. "Meanwhile,...