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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Amazing Machines: Big Bulldozers follows Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse as they become bulldozer operators and help out on a busy construction site. Zippy wordplay and zappy art make learning about bulldozers fun, and each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love."--Amazon.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 5
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The visit of quirky world-famous horror author Nathan Grimes to Star City is thrilling for Clare Henry and her grandfather Chester. As owners of The Rescued Word, they restore old typewriters and repair beloved books. They've invited Nathan to use their equipment for his next book. But when a tourist discovers an abandoned ski boot on the slopes with the foot still inside, Nathan can't help but join Clare and police officer Jodie Wentworth to track...
Author
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Josiah Chamberlain's life's work revolves around repairing other people's marriages. When his own is threatened by his wife's unexplained distance, and then threatened further when she's unexpectedly plunged into an unending fog, Josiah finds his expertise, quick wit, and clever quips are no match for a relationship that is clearly broken. Feeling betrayed, confused, and ill-equipped for a crisis this crippling, he reexamines everything he knows...
Author
Publisher
Dorchester Publishing
Language
English
Description
Will Dryden picked the wrong time to ride onto the Redstone Ranch. He was looking for a job . . . and a missing man. But one of the Redstone's hands was just found killed, so tensions are riding high and not everyone's eager to welcome a stranger. The more questions Dryden asks, the more twisted everything seems, and the more certain he is that someone's got something to hide. Something worth killing for.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeremy Logan (The Third Gate, Deep Storm) is an "enigmalogist"-an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. In this newest novel Logan finds himself on the storied coastline of Newport, Rhode Island, where he has been retained by Lux, one of the oldest and most respected think tanks in America. Just days earlier, a series of frightening events took place in the sprawling seaside mansion that houses the organization....
Author
Series
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. Full of art, this collection also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary. The trailblazing women profiled include well-known...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women's magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family. Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c 2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Now wielding the Midnight Blade, Jack Sullivan and the gang are furiously searching for the villainous Thrull and his skeleton army. The clock is ticking: the enemy has begun constructing the Tower--a portal with the power to bring Rezzoch the Ancient, Destructor of Worlds, to our dimension. Equipped with a crucial clue discovered by June on her Wild Flight, the group does the once-unthinkable: they leave Wakefield behind and embark on an ... epic...