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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty and wonder drug of the medical community. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil in the radium-dial factories, lucky to have such a coveted job. Until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave 'shining girls' find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--Provided by the publisher.
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"Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War; Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died, history would scarcely remember them: Churchill was a politician on the outs and Orwell was a mildly successful novelist. But by the end of the twentieth century they would become two of the most important people in British history for having the vision...
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"66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs created a hugely successful empire that lasted for around 150 million years. In this hugely ambitious and engrossing story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet, using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the art...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"At ninety, Jimmy Carter writes about racism during his boyhood and the isolation of the Carters during the civil rights struggles. He portrays his navy years and writes movingly about the profound influence his mother had on him and how he admired his father. President Carter tells us what has made him proud and what he might have done differently, his regret at losing his reelection, and how he and Rosalynn made a rewarding new life. He is frank...
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"According to the Japanese, everyone has a ikigai--a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world's longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Ikigai reveals their secrets: how they eat, move, and work, how they foster collaboration and community, and--the best-kept secret--how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools...
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"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
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English
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"This timely collection by historian David McCullough--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom--is a book about America for all Americans. At a time of self-reflection in a divided America, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a volume designed to identify core American values to which we all subscribe--regardless of the region we live in, the political party we identify...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Francisco Cantú's mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Cantú joins the Border Patrol, tracking people in remote regions, hauling in the dead and delivering the living to detention. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he leaves the Patrol. But when an immigrant friend visits his dying mother in Mexico and does not return, Cantú must know...
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"A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: 'You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.' That's enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs's three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. Jacobs's journey...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph. In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"An irresistible, nostalgic, and insightful--and totally original--ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston. Offering children gems of advice such as 'Strive to learn' and 'Be not a dunce,' it was no fun at all. So how did we get from there to 'Let the wild rumpus start'?...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon. One rainy night, he stumbles upon a hurt, starving, scruffy cat and takes her in. Nursing her back to health, he names her Tabor and she becomes a bit of a celebrity in southeast Portland. When winter comes, they travel from Oregon to the beaches of California to the high plains of Montana, surviving blizzards and bears,...
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"A narrative by the Tower of London's official Ravenmaster about what it's like to live among the ravens at England's most famous national monument, woven together with insight from folklore, history, and contemporary behavioral science about this unusual bird"--Provided by the publisher.
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Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"In June 2009, after performing in London, American flautist Edwin Rist took a train to an outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. The Tring museum housed rare bird specimens worth staggering amounts to those who shared Edwin's obsession with the art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside he grabbed hundreds of bird skins, then escaped into the darkness. This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Set during the roaring twenties, Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury 'floating university,' populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most...