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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
Kids - Suggestions for Third Graders
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
Description
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter. Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
10) Norse mythology
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the highest and oldest of the gods; his son, Thor, who makes up in brawn what he lacks in brains; and Loki, offspring of giants and a wily trickster. In a series of stories, we learn how Thor acquired his...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (375 pages)
Language
English
Description
"With a chatty voice and sarcastic style, The Faker's Guide to the Classics condenses the great-but long and often complicated-novels, plays, and poems into bite-size nuggets of info that are easy to digest, cutting out the bloated analysis and nauseating debate of other reading guides. From Anna Karenina and Beowulf to Ulysses and Wuthering Heights, each of the 100 books profiled here is a classic that everyone talks about but only hardcore lit majors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (66 pages : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
He played Spike on the show, and now James Marsters writes a poignant but action-packed story of the vampire who chose to have a soul and now has to deal with his past while being compelled to play the hero. * Get into Spike's head as only James Marsters can! * Spike: Into the Light is an original graphic novel set in Buffy Season Seven!. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Do we change or does the world change us? Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise. Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. ...
16) The kite runner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
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Language
English
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Description
The Number One Fashion Workshop for Shojo Manga!
From 'dos to shoes, how you dress and style your characters says a lot about who they are, before they even utter a word. Whether your story calls for a flashy drama queen or a mousy bookworm, this guide contains everything you need to know to create fabulous shojo manga characters with personality.
• The Figure. Follow these simple basics to draw the...
From 'dos to shoes, how you dress and style your characters says a lot about who they are, before they even utter a word. Whether your story calls for a flashy drama queen or a mousy bookworm, this guide contains everything you need to know to create fabulous shojo manga characters with personality.
• The Figure. Follow these simple basics to draw the...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Meet Liana Caudillo, a young Latina, who loves music and aspires to design album covers in her beloved San Francisco. Like many other artists in the city, Liana works at the de Young Museum Caf©♭. Yet, despite being surrounded by art all day, San Francisco's growing gap between rich and poor and its growing homogeneity become a challenge. Liana doesn't find the bohemian city she once dreamed about. Instead, she is surrounded by other service workers,...
Author
Publisher
Kitchen Sink Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (167 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
A lost masterpiece by cult artist Bob Powell! This deluxe hardcover collects early 1950s Thun'Da and Cave Girl stories, featuring campy and sexy "jungle girl" genre material at its leopard-skinned finest! Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales) provides an introduction. This book includes an essay by Eisner-winning author James Vance (Kings in Disguise) and John Wooley (Fangoria). Bob Powell's Complete Cave Girl is a complete collection of cult favorite Cave...
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Language
English
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
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