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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....
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English
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"In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community. Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife Alecia are well respected throughout town. That is, until one of the many reporters investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy...
5) Blackbird
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Series
Blackbird (Anna Carey) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"A teenage girl wakes up on the Los Angeles subway tracks with no memory of who she is or how she got there. One thing she does know is that people are trying to kill her, and she must race to uncover her past and outwit her hunters before it's too late"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seem.s When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust inot a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sara May Blackburn has always been an odd girl. Plagued by mysterious powers her whole life, Sara heads to New York to seek Miss Brook at the Linton School for Girls.
But the school is shrouded in strangeness, and the more secrets Sara discovers, the more dangerous and challenging her studies become. Sara must reveal the forces that seek to control her power.
Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he partners with celebrated author Angela Slatter...
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Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
"New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
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Series
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English
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This updated edition of one of the bestselling and most comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theater, including revivals. Chronologically arranged, beginning with The Black Crook in 1866, the eighth edition adds new entries and photos on numerous musicals from recent years, including Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ; The...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Hercules and his friend Marlon have just enrolled at the School of Intergalactic Agents, but theyre both having problems. Hercules is a little youngand a little shortto make the grade, while Marlon just cant help being a coward. For their first Surveillance Operation, theyre sent to Earth to gather information on a girl whos behaving strangely. But while theyre away, the dreaded Blackbird plans to attack the School
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English
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On January 27th, 2016, Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday with a historic performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The special event honored her legendary 50 plus years in music in an intimate, career spanning live performance. Baez performed alongside fellow artists and friends, including, David Bromberg, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, and more.
Publisher
Classics Illustrated
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A classic tale of a poor wood-cutter, his wife and three daughters who live together in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest. One morning as the wood-cutter was about to go to work, he said to his wife, "Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I shall never get my work done, and in order that she may not miss her way," he added, "I will take a bag of millet with me and strew the seeds on the path." When, the...