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1) Bluebird
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
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A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules-a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A wild bird rehabilitator and nature artist describes her painstaking efforts to rescue injured birds and her experiences when those birds come back to visit, looking at the personality and quirks of individual birds of different species.
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Wanda Seasongood volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Wanda doesn't fit in with her family and is always searching for clues about her past. On her eleventh birthday, a talking bluebird named Voltaire shows up and takes her on a quest through the Scary Wood to find her true parents"--
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English
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The author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy delivers a "devastating exploration of grief, shame, and deeply buried truths" (Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse) in this powerful and taut novel about racial tensions following two Los Angeles families--one Korean-American, one African American--grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Two of the best-known names in birding--Peterson and Bird Watcher's Digest--team up to provide reliable, expert advice on how to attract the birds you want into your yard. Which birds use nest boxes? What's required to maintain a birdhouse? What kind of habitat will attract which birds? What does it take to be a bluebird trail operator? What does it mean if baby birds or eggs disappear from their nest? Bill Thompson III answers all of these questions...
9) Blue
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Simple text and photographs describe common things that are blue, including blueberries, bluebirds, and blue jeans.
10) Heaven, my home
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Highway 59 volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing--but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.rget.
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Bobbsey Twins series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The Bobbseys set sail on a houseboat where mystery and intrigue await.
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English
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From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." —Ann Patchett
Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother;...
Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother;...
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Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolinaa place ¿́¿easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be ¿́¿the rare bird, the oddity¿́¿to find joy and freedom...
15) Wildcard
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English
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The seventh studio album by American country music artist Miranda Lambert was produced by Jay Joyce, marking the first time Lambert has worked with the producer. It features the single It All Comes Out in the Wash.
18) Heaven, my home
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Highway 59 volume 2
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English
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"The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird. Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing, but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him -- and all goes dark. Darren Matthews is trying to emerge from...
19) Old yellow moon
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Publisher
Nonesuch
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Old Yellow Moon, a new collaborative album from Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, The twelve track duets album features four songs written by Crowell as well as interpretations of songs such as Hank DeVito's ''Hanging Up My Heart,'' Roger Miller's ''Invitation to the Blues,'' and Allen Reynolds' ''Dreaming My Dreams,'' among others.