L. J. Ganser
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English
Description
"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
2) Void moon
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English
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"In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has 'outlaw juice' flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run--with a near-psychotic Vegas 'fixer' killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets:...
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck, stuck in the Book of Everafter, chase the Master through a series of stories, where they're willing to change what they need in order to save their baby brother. Soon, however, they are confronted by the Editor--the book's guardian--who, along with an army of tiny monsters known as Revisers, threatens the children with dire consequences if they don't stick to the stories. Faced with a challenge like this, will they be able...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 9
Language
English
Description
Fans of fractured fairy tales will be delighted to discover the fantasy, mystery, adventure, and humor in the Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, now with new cover art. As featured on NBC's The Today Show, the nine wildly popular books are favorites around the world. They were among the first books to bring a distinctly girl-power spin to fairy tales-a spin taken up by hit TV shows such as Grimm and Once Upon a Time, the bestselling book series...
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Series
Sisters Grimm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm-- along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters-- tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Milo Speck enters Ogregon, a land populated with hungry ogres, enormous turkeys, children needing rescue, and his own, ordinary, salesman-father, his top priority is to escape--but only after thwarting a plot to turn children everywhere into ogre snack food.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After their parents awake from a sleeping spell, Daphne and Sabrina become caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army and learn a shocking secret about a deadly enemy.
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English
Description
In this read-along picture book, a classroom full of young dinosaurs plays with toys, does art projects, and reads books. But each activity is another opportunity for the over-enthusiastic Tyrannosaurus Rex to wreak havoc. Parents and young children will love the call-and-response nature of the book, and young dinosaur fans will appreciate the listing (and pronunciation guide) for a dozen different dino species. The format is extra vertical in
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English
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"We've all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in life. It's perfectly normal to go through emotional crises or have periods when you feel panicked or out of sorts. It is how you respond to these challenges that will make all the difference in how you feel--not just immediately, but also in the long run. Unfortunately, many people turn to self-medicating behaviors, such as overeating, drugs, alcohol,...
11) Flight school
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.
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Language
English
Description
"As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty...
14) Fool's gold
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
"Christian family bound for California. It's 1905, and a rush for gold is underway when they reach the rough and tumble town of Goldfield, Nevada"--Container.
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English
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Description
Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world ... but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus's expeditions-and for creating the Spanish Inquisition....
17) Trains
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kids love trains! Especially the old-timey steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms on the track at 361 miles per hour? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles? Or futuristic railways in the sky? In this Level 1 reader, young readers will discover a whole new way of looking at trains!"--Amazon.com.
18) Planets
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Provides information about the planets, the sun, and moons.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder-set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election
It's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden, pockets his...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.