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The unforgiving descent of Alaskan winter has Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer struggling for survival after their ship is trapped in the ice floes of the Arctic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Leah and Helaina endure the long separation--Leah wondering if her children will ever know their father and Helaina longing for the chance to express her love to Jacob. When unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, will they find the strength...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and...
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Word
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Readers have already fallen in love with the quirky personalities that inhabit Heavenly Daze. In A Warmth in Winter, the unforgettable characters and humorous circumstances offer poignant lessons of God's love and faithfulness. The story centers around Vernie Bidderman, owner of Mooseleuk Mercantile and Salt Gribbon, the lighthouse operator, who despite the vast differences in their struggles are being taught about the ultimate failure and frustration...
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Winter street volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good news: Kevin is enjoying married life with Isabelle; Patrick...
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ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'"--
9) Ashen winter
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Ashfall trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.
10) Winter
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Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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Cinder and her allies are joined in the plot to overthrow Queen Levana by the queen's stepdaughter, Winter, who has long been defying her evil stepmother's wishes by harboring feelings for her personal guard whom she is forbidden from marrying.
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Pub. Date
2008
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
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HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Publisher Annotation: One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice-live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die. Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter-an immortal physical embodiment of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring kills Winter. Jack and Fleur, a Winter and a Spring, fall...
15) Wicked lovely
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
16) Snow like ashes
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
18) Toaff's way
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Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Toaff, a curious gray squirrel, wonders why he must avoid humans and red squirrel rivals before a winter storm separates him from his family and challenges him to make his own way in the world.
19) A fatal winter
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Max Tudor mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Max--Anglican priest, former MI5 agent, and village heartthrob--investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But his growing attraction to Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at Chedrow Castle of a raucous group of long-lost, greedy relatives, any one of whom has a motive for murder.
20) The wolf's boy
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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own"--