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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Daniel has only two friends, is unusually tall, is picked on by teachers, and does not look like anyone else in his family, so when he learns his mom saved a newspaper clipping about a meteor that landed nearby on his birthday, he embraces his pretend alien heritage and launches a mission with his two friends to return to his home planet.
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"A boy dealing with the loss of his father describes the many waves of emotion that come with the grieving process: sad waves, mad waves, fear waves, even happy waves. As the boy and his family learn to adjust to life without Dad, the waves still come, but with help from friends, they learn to cope and heal"--
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AD 520L
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English
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"C is for cooperate. G is for grow. P is for play! This friendly and reassuring alphabet book helps young children (and those who care for them) consider, explore, and discuss a wide range of skills related to school readiness. Kids preparing for kindergarten or preK will learn social skills from A to Z, building or reinforcing their knowledge of the alphabet at the same time. Charming art brings the skills to life with encouraging scenes of fun and...
24) Furthermore
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities"--
When Alice Alexis Queensmeadow's Father disappears from Ferenwood he takes nothing but a ruler with him. But it's been almost three years since then, and Alice is determined to find him. In order to find him she'll have to travel through the...
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
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Cultural disorientation has become pandemic. Children act like adults and adults act like children. Mother Earth is worshiped but motherhood is despised. Free speech may get you free room and board in jail. Life is denied and death is affirmed. Dictators are treasured but duly elected leaders are treated with contempt. Honest men are smeared while thugs are celebrated.
Our nation suffers from an epidemic of "upside-down thinking" and we are poorer...
27) You go first
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
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English
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Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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Series
Lulu (Hilary McKay) volume 3
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When a mysterious bag is left on Lulu's doorstep, the last thing her grandmother expects to be in it is a cat--a huge, neon orange cat. But Lulu knows this cat doesn't mean any harm and in fact it needs a lovely new home"--
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Have you been dealing with a challenging situation or a loss of some kind during the global pandemic?
If you are reading this book, it is not an accident. The global pandemic has, impacted many people in different ways. You may have lost a loved one, your job, your health. Written from the heart, this book will inspire you to feel a sense of hope. While I may not know your personal situation, I can assure you from personal experience that God's grace...
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Christianity in America is under siege. From litigation over coaches starting games with prayer to expulsion from college for refusing to endorse beliefs at odds with the Christian faith, hardly a week goes by without news of the declining influence that Christianity has in the public square. Can Christianity in this country survive the advances of secularists and remain influential in our culture? And if a new spiritual awakening is possible, what...
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Through a thought-provoking, journalistic voice, Billy Hallowell, faith editor for theblaze.com, provides objective one-on-one interviews with various leading voices in Christian ministry to explain what they believe the Bible teaches us about the last days.
From its easy-to-understand writing style to other helpful tools, everything about this book was created to allow you to educate yourself on what the Bible says, compare what the experts believe,...
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Español
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Del lamento a la revelación es un libro creado en medio de la pandemia que aqueja al mundo entero. El propósito de su escritura es plantear desafíos para la iglesia en estos tiempos. Al concebirla, Jesús pensó en una iglesia que le representara adecuadamente en cada momento de la historia, ya fueran buenos o malos. Sin embargo, cuando la crisis llega las dudas aparecen y de pronto la iglesia se convierte en una extensión del mundo con sus mismos...
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For some, our media-saturated culture points to the decline of Western civilization; for others, it points to the dawn of a bright future. For Nathan Roberts, the mediated landscape is a place to thoughtfully engage with these tensions. This unique memoir, meditative and philosophical, chronicles Nathan's absorption in the vital, inspiring, and often maddening power of media and entertainment. With wry self-effacement and raw honesty, he calls us...
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It is within America's technical and financial power to help end world hunger in our lifetime, if we set our hearts and minds to the task. Contrary to what many people believe, the world has made measurable advancements against hunger and poverty over the last several decades. But too often the binding constraint on further progress is a simple lack of political will. As a result, one of the most powerful ways to affect change is often the most neglected-...
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With the debate on values and morals making nationwide headlines, Leith Anderson goes to the heart of the matter... Today's alarming statistics on violent crime, divorce, illegitimate births, and high school SAT scores highlight a growing national crisis of values in NOrth America. William Bennett has stated that the widespread breakdown of ethics and morality shows "too many signs of a civilization gone rotten?" And, sadly, statistics also show that...
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Laudate Deum: the Pope's cry for a response to the climate crisis. In continuity with his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, the Pope Francis went further to clarify and bring to completion his previous text on integral ecology, while at the same time sounding an alarm that our power and the progress we are producing are turning against us, and calls for co-responsibility, in the face of the climate emergency.
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English
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Does the Bible talk about aliens and UFOs?
What if I told you that it does?
Do alien abductions really happen? Will aliens play a role in the End Times?
Wanting to reconcile her Christian faith with the questions and concerns she had about aliens and UFOs, author Joyce E. Wright spent years researching and gathering information on this subject. The answers she discovered were amazing and eye opening! Standing on the shoulders of those who have gone...
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