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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Pete the Kitty may be little, but he's filled with love. Pete the Kitty loves so many wonderful things in life, like birthday cake, ice cream, his guitar, and more. But what does this groovy kitty love the most?
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English
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Born in 1929, Beryl Walker (nee Pereira) enjoyed a rich but sheltered childhood in rural New South Wales. It was a time when family and church meant everything, and the trials of war brought out the best in the community. There Was Always a Cat captures life as a child of the Great Depression, as well as the joys and sorrows of a lifelong connection with cats, with gentle wit and poignant honesty.
30) Little Bear
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Four stories center around Mother Bear and Little Bear who not only takes a trip to the moon but has a birthday party as well.
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English
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The author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.
Psychologists have told him he's a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he's a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a cult following as a cartoonist. But, above all else, Tim Kreider is an essayist-one whose deft prose, uncanny observations, dark humor, and emotional vulnerability...
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English
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What happens when you fully commit yourself to love? Endless good, insists Scott Stabile, who found that out by overcoming plenty of bad. His parents were murdered when he was fourteen. Nine years later, his brother died of a heroin overdose. Soon after that, Scott joined a cult that dominated his life for thirteen years before he summoned the courage to walk away. In Big Love, his insightful and refreshingly honest collection of personal essays,...
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English
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The relationships between owners and their pets go well beyond basic companionship. Not only do they develop a special bond, but people can gain insights on life, faith, and love from their cats and dogs. These heartwarming collections include 40 meditations each and draw from real-life experiences with the authors' own pets as well as those of their family and friends. From Katrina survivor Bess to the phone-answering dog Jordy, from the kitten-tending...
36) Big Cat
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hefty feline puts up with all kinds of indignities from the children in her loving but rambunctious family.
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Series
Hathaways volume 4
Language
English
Description
Married by Morning continues Lisa Kleypas's Hathaways beloved series set in Victorian London.
For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters—a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges' older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked
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English
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While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home.
The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid...
The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid...
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Mr. Pusskins hates doing ordinary cat things such as playing with his owner Emily but a night out on the streets in search of adventure makes him reconsider the advantages of a loving home.