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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Standing before the Taliban, guns leveled at her, she did not move. Despite being shot at point-blank range, Malala lived to tell the tale. Here, she reveals the beliefs that upset the Taliban and gave her the courage to stand up and speak out. 320pp., 500K
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The Award—winning author recounts coming of age in 1950s Washington State with his mother and abusive stepfather in this classic memoir.
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures. Part family saga and part personal quest, The Girl Who Fell to Earth traces Al-Maria’s journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds.
When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hard times farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
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Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The author presents a tender story of his family's love for their golden retriever, Marley, and recalls how he grew from a mischievous puppy into a nearly impossible adult that no amount of obedience school training could correct.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...