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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
2) Philosophy
Publisher
BarCharts, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2008.
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1 online resource (4 pages)
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English
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This guide outlines concepts and principles of philosophy in an easy-to-understand format. --Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this...
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Nine-year-old Allie Finkle's list of rules helps her navigate a tricky situation with a new girl at school.
8) The Whisper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the telepathic twins, Ellie and Mika have specialized skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these potent pills, the cadaver-like Gorman foresees a future in which he'll be forever young - released from the machinery that now supports him. Unless the twins have a master plan of their own: to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style"--
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
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English
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Are you looking for a meaningful quote to add into your presentation? Or do you want to seek philosophical inspiration every day from the great and the good? If so, then this is the book for you. Contained within are 101 amazing philosophical quotes from all walks of life - from luminaries such as Socrates and Einstein all the way to unexpected sources including video games and the musical world.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Fourth-grader Allie establishes a new set of rules after she is forced to pair up with ex-best friend Mary Kay on a class trip to a historic one-room schoolhouse.
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Los refranes son sentencias cortas que nos acompañan a lo largo de nuestra vida. Los oímos continuamente en una conversación casual, una exposición formal, un consejo fraterno o un reproche hostil. Breves pero significativos, muchas veces resuelven situaciones confusas o absurdas. Por eso, son considerados como proverbios indiscutibles que, a pesar de desconocer su origen, se repiten una y otra vez, sin cuestionar su contenido o su forma. La sabiduría...
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In one of life's unfathomable twists, on the afternoon of October 31, 1994, a turboprop plane bound for Chicago crashed in a soybean field outside the small town of Roselawn, Indiana. All sixty-eight people aboard American Eagle Flight 4184 perished, including the author Terri Severin's sister, Patty, and her nephew, Patrick. This tragedy created a ripple effect that grew to have worldwide repercussions. National Geographic has stated it is one of...
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"¿Estoy realmente seguro de no experimentar sentimiento de amor cuando odio, de amar verdaderamente cuando en realidad sólo estoy adorando, de estar celoso cuando siento envidia, de ser bienintencionado cuando sólo un egoísmo disfrazado me anima?"
En este libro, que se lee como un pequeño tratado de las pasiones, Charlotte Casiraghi y Robert Maggiori se ocupan de lo sensible, de lo que nos afecta, de las fronteras o de la ausencia de fronteras...
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Philosophizing - considering life questions - stimulates thinking: processing information, reasoning, thinking creatively, evaluating alternatives. Many children are natural philosophers. They observe the world around them from a young age, have a keen sense of right and wrong, and ask endless questions. Stories - fables, fairy tales, parables - are a classic device for teaching lessons about life, morality, chance, consequences, and other cultures...
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Many people use religion to guide them and instill a set of principles that they can follow in life. However, not everyone chooses to go down this path. Those who don't believe in things like god or destiny might subscribe to humanism, or the philosophy that humans are independent and in control of their own lives without a higher power to help them along. Using this insightful guide, readers will be well-equipped to navigate the world on their own...
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Beautifully illustrated, this book traces the strands of thought in Western philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present day. The book asks key questions in philosophy explored over the past 2,500 years. Within each question, approaches are considered in chronological order, showing how each philosopher's thoughts have been influenced by those who have gone before. Following the Common Core standard of exploring how two or more authors approach...
19) Moving day
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
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