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3) Sorceress
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
Author
Publisher
Grandview Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1991, c1986
Edition
Paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Life changes dramatically for the Blackfeet people in the early 1700's when a twin brother and sister discover a stange animal and succeed in bringing it back to the tribe.
5) Green Thumb
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Sloan is on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. However she will discover that her unethical ways need to change when a deceased client becomes her personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future, and a jilted lover from her past enters her life once again.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1933, a man named Adolf Hitler is the new and powerful anti-Semitic chancellor of Germany. But in Los Angeles, no-nonsense secretary Liesl Weiss has concerns much closer to home. The Great Depression is tightening its grip and Liesl is the sole supporter of two children, an opinionated mother, and a troubled brother. Leon Lewis is a Jewish lawyer who has watched Adolf Hitler's rise to power--and the increase in anti-Semitism in America--with...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter--one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island--has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome. Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughterof prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes...
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After Columbus discovered America came the men to make a conquest. From all corners of the world, explorers reached the shores of the New World to reap untold riches, seek new routes to the Far East, and gain the most elusive glory of all - a place in history. A sweeping saga of bravery, cruelty and pure folly, these are the stories of adventurers who stopped at nothing to conquer an unknown land and its peoples. Led by legendary cities of gold and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation - The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom, and the Declaration of Independence made that official. Discover the true story of one of the most...
13) Writ in stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an ancient artifact and a little boy go missing, Nancy and her friends are on the case. The artifact may prove that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus, but someone doesn't want that knowledge public and is out to stop Nancy, permanently.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Series continuation. Narrative nonfiction, key events of the Civil Rights Movement in the years spanning from 1939-1954. Photographs throughout"--
" Key events prior to the heart of the Civil Rights Movement will be brought to life in this series continuation.The years spanning from 1939-1954 opens the door to discovering how this specific time period, prior to and following WWII, brought about change and how it still affects us as a society today....
15) Echoes of war
Publisher
Arc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In post-Civil War Texas, two neighboring families are grieving tragic losses while they struggle to survive in this rural drama. The cattle-ranching McCluskeys have lost both a son and their entire herd to the war. The Rileys, mourning the loss of wife and mother Mary to illness, eke out a living trapping animals and selling their pelts. When Wade (James Badge Dale,�The Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3) returns from fighting for the Confederacy, he discovers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear.What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grandview Pub. Co
Pub. Date
�2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Takini is a special boy, adopted by Chief Sitting Bull, and gifted with special powers. He discovers a plan for the 'bluecoats'- United States Government soldiers - to attack Indian villages. Will he live to warn his tribe?
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrates the pioneers and artists of American roots music--blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, and Native American--without which there would be no jazz, rock, country, R & B, or hip hop today. "American Epic, a historic music project ... explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge portable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even--yourself? People are capable of almost anything. A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An explosive expose of the right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, and change the Constitution. "Perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government." --Booklist (starred review) Behind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling...
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