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1) Snow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
2) Goggles
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 5
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
4) The kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under...
6) Shadowmaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
7) City fun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As two girls explore the city, they watch buildings being torn down and built, ride the subway, visit the park, watch a parade, play games, and visit the library.
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
Author
Series
Joshua series volume 5
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Fourth in a series of inspirational novels in which Jesus, in the guise of a mysterious man named Joshua, returns to the modern-day world, this time working his miracles in the inner-city, dealing with prostitution, depression, AIDS, evil, and loss of hope.
Author
Series
Emma Graham volume 1
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham becomes obsessed with the story of Mary-Evelyn Devereau--a girl just Emma's age who drowned in Spirit Lake forty years earlier. In the course of her investigation, Emma learns secrets best left untold and must make some grown-up decisions about right and wrong.
13) Bibliolepsy
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with their authors. For Primi, the nascent revolution means that writers are gathering more often, and with greater urgency, so that every poetry reading she attends presents...
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 3
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Father Timothy Kavanagh, married for the first time at the age of sixtysomething, struggles to deal with the upheaval and delight of having a wife, while also presiding over the triumphs and troubles of the people of the small town of Mitford, North Carolina.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...
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