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English
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First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write. Born in those hills, Cora knows the plague of illiteracy. So does Brother Wyatt,...
Author
Series
Heather Wells mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Heather Wells Rocks!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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Language
English
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Description
"Arizona Territory, summer, 1907. Mary Pearl Prine and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot's bookshelf. Whispered read-alouds and reveries of getting hitched to their own Mr. Darcy swirl through their day dreams. In walks Aubrey Hanna, who whisks Mary Pearl off her feet with a forbidden kiss and hasty engagement. The lustful courtship quickly creates petty tension among the three...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 12
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Freddy's success at the science fair is in jeopardy when his mother throws out his project.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience - and understands all too well the hazards an educated slave must face. Yet even Ginny could not predict the tangled, tragic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After playing boisterously at the playground, Percy learns how to keep himself and his friends safe and still have a good time. This book includes questions about the text and a note to parents about visual learning.
Author
Series
Princess Posey volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Posey's first grade class gets a new student, she worries her friends will like the new girl more than her."--
Author
Series
Fleet School volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
Author
Series
Amish turns of time volume 3
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the government approves a separate Amish school, Ella Hilty is asked to teach, and she must choose between her heart's dream of marriage and answering the call to do what is best for her community.
16) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Lizet, the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Lizet's older sister without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Pulled between...
19) A pound of flesh
Author
Series
Pound of flesh volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Haunted by nightmares of her father’s street murder fifteen years ago, Kat Lane decides to face her fears and uphold his legacy of helping others by teaching inmates at a New York prison. There she meets arrogant Wesley Carter, who’s as handsome as he is dangerous, as mysterious as he is quick-witted, and with a reputation that ensures people will keep their distance. As Carter’s barriers begin to crumble, Kat realizes there’s much more to...
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hoping to land the lead in the class play, Hank freezes during his audition and is only able to buzz like a fly, inspiring his teacher to create a special role for him as a silent bookmark that saves the show when a rival suffers an attack of stage fright.
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