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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When a steamboat arrives heralding the news that Iowa has been called up to represent the Union of the United States of America, Ike is beside himself with excitement. For months, the promise of war has enveloped small-town Keokuk like a grand game that everyone's in on - everyone but Ike, his swaybacked pony, and his best friend and checkers partner, Albirdie. Left behind with Mother and the aunts and girl cousins while the Button men march forth...
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English
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"Evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? In Gwendy's Final Task, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds"--
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Series
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English
Description
Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out. In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she had been entrusted--or...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When the missing button for their new apartment building's thirteenth floor suddenly appears, identical twins Mal and Colm are pulled into an eerie adventure in an parallel dimension"--
Series
Publisher
Button Books, an imprint of Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Take a journey back in time to the strange and spectacular land of the pharaohs. You'll meet the Egyptian gods, explore the river Nile, decipher hieroglyphics and discover the truth about the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb. Why did they build the pyramids? How were mummies made? And what is the mysterious Sphinx? Find the answers to these and many more questions inside"--
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Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In Arkansas, there is a full-scale Roman fort with catapults and ramparts. In Colorado, nearly a hundred men don Nazi uniforms to fight the battle of Stalingrad. On the St. Lawrence River, a group of dedicated history buffs row more slowly than they can walk--along with author Charlie Schroeder, who is sweating profusely and cursing the day he got a book deal. Taking readers on a figurative trip through time and a literal journey across America, Man...
8) Panic button
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Josie is approached at her shop to appraise a very rare item--a complete charm string. In Victorian times, girls strung buttons on long strings to make the charms. Once the string reached 1,000 buttons--no two alike--the legend was that the owner would meet her beloved. But the owner of this charm string is not looking for love--she's desperate to donate the piece to a museum and be rid of it. She believes the string is far from charmed--it's cursed....
11) Ghosts: Season 1
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Crumbling country mansion Button House is home to restless spirits who've died there over the centuries. Each a product of their time, they're thrown together for eternity, resigned to squabble over mundane daily gripes. But their lives or rather afterlives are thrown into turmoil when young urban couple Alison and Mike unexpectedly inherit the peaceful derelict house and plan to turn it into a bustling hotel. As the ghosts attempt to oust the newcomers,...
12) Swan lake
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This tale of a prince, a beautiful swan princess and an evil sorcerer begins in a woodland clearing far, far away. It is Prince Siegfried's 21st birthday. He is playing games with his friends when his mother, the Queen, arrives to tell him he needs to stop having fun and start looking after the kingdom. Prince Siegfried dreams of running away. He follows an enchanting flock of swans to a clearing by a lake, where four of the little cygnets begin to...