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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his...
2) Minnesota
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the Mississippi's headwaters to one of the largest malls in the country, there's lots to see and do in Minnesota! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Minnesota special"--Publisher's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
Author
Language
English
Description
Features 10 engaging rhymes that will capture readers' ears and hearts. With topics that range from a rainy day to getting up in the morning, to using imagination in play. These rhymes will soothe children even as they introduce them to the spectrum of human emotion.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
6) California
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of California, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
8) Human body
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Series
Language
English
Description
Focusing on contemporary and historical developments in the study of human anatomy, this features clear, age appropriate text, photographs, charts, graphics, and 3-D models highlighting the inner workings of our bodies -- from the framework of our skeleton to the millions of tiny cells that make our bodies work. In this updated edition, kids can discover how muscles and joints help us move, find out how x-rays work, see the network of nerves inside...
9) Maine
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Maine, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
10) Hawaii
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Hawaii, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
11) Wisconsin
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Wisconsin, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
12) Massachusetts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the Bay State, Massachusetts, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
13) Connecticut
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Connecticut, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
14) Tennessee
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of Tennessee.
16) Michigan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Michigan, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
18) Morocco
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Morocco, a unique northern African nation surrounded by both water and desert.
19) England
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, language, religions, culture, people, plants, and animals of England.
20) Egypt
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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