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Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad), and information about the people involved and events leading up to and after the court case ruling."--
A Roberto �Alvarez le encantaba la escuala. Junto con otros ni�nos mexicoamericanos, asisti�o a la escuela de Lemon Grove,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andy Warhol, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, is well known for his Pop Art masterpieces. But there is more to Warhol than that: he also made films, launched 'Interview' magazine, and forsaw the convergence of art, Hollywood fashion and business as the trend of the future. "In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes." The Campbell's Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created...
63) Falls the shadow
Author
Series
Falls the shadow volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Reprint ed.
Language
English
Description
Cate’s sister may be a clone, but that doesn’t make her a killer. Does it? Murder, morality, and a slow-burning romance fill the pages of this futuristic thriller “for die-hard fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games ” ( Kirkus Reviews ). When Cate Benson was a kid, her sister, Violet, died. Two hours after the funeral, Cate’s family picked up Violet’s replacement like nothing had happened. Because Cate’s parents are among those who decided...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Outcry - Holocaust Memoirs, a profoundly moving autobiography Manny Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story. Born in 1925 in the Jewish ghetto in Radom (Poland), Manny soon realized that people of Jewish faith were increasingly being regarded as outsiders. When the Nazis invaded in September 1939 the nightmare started. The city’s Jewish population...
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel in which, during River Heights' Nostalgia Week celebrations, Nancy Drew stakes out an antique dollhouse to see who is making its dolls depict strange crimes before they happen--and winds up witnessing her own murder in doll form.
66) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed...
Author
Series
Choose your own ever after volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
"For months Kitty MacLean has been crushing on Rio Sanchez, who is probably the cutest boy in the world. But it looks like she might never get a chance to hang out with him until ... 1. Kitty goes camping with her best friends like she promised them, and finds out Rio just happens to be staying not too far away. But should she meet up with him? Or is a grubby camping holiday not the best time to meet up with your mega crush? 2. Kitty breaks her promise...
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Rice
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"“THE SORCERER’S RING has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will keep you entertained for hours, and will satisfy all ages. Recommended for the permanent library of all fantasy readers.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos A FATE OF DRAGONS (Book #3 in the Sorcerer's Ring) takes us deeper into Thor’s...
70) Dickensian
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One doesn't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories--packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
71) A cry of honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Rice
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"“THE SORCERER’S RING has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will keep you entertained for hours, and will satisfy all ages. Recommended for the permanent library of all fantasy readers.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos In A CRY OF HONOR (Book #4 in the Sorcerer's Ring), Thor has returned from...
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 58
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
A woman who left her high-school sweetheart to marry another, returns 15 years later as a single mother, becoming best friends with his wife. It happens in Maine, where she opens a candle shop.
73) The dilemma
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees something he should not have and makes it his mission to get answers. As the amateur investigation dissolves his world into comic mayhem, he learns that his best friend Nick has a few secrets of his own. Now, Ronny must decide what will happen if he reveals the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
75) Olivia's Promis
Author
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to save your best friend from a fate worse than death?
Olivia Townsend will do whatever it takes to save Lilly from just such a fate.
The year is 1804, and Lady Olivia Sophia Townsend has turned 20 years old. She is beautiful, well-educated and considered by some in polite society to be far too eccentric for her own good. When Olivia was younger, she was very open about her gift. She can see and communicate with spirits.
The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris for a Matron at the London headquarters of...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre. Her talent, passion, and perseverance enabled her to make strides no one had accomplished before. But as she will tell you, achievement never happens in a void. Behind her, supporting her rise was her mentor, Raven Wilkinson, who had been virtually alone in her quest to breach the all-white ballet world when she fought to be taken seriously...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The ladies of Wisteria Lane have more shocking mysteries to unveil. Contains all 24 episodes plus exclusive bonus features: Miss Piggy Takes Wisteria Lane; Teri & Cherry; bloopers; deleted scenes; and much more.
79) Spring will come
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Historical fiction is my passion. I so love bringing history to life - the reason I dedicate most of my time to writing historical fiction books! Spring Will Come is the third book in the ongoing Bregdan Chronicles historical novel series. It's readers like you who have turned it into a world-wide best-seller. Thank you! Book Description: As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a deadly Civil War battlefield, spirited Carrie Cromwell puts...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
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