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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the band started by the Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins after the Civil War to provide funds for African American orphans and which successfully toured the United States and Europe and fostered the popularity for "rag" and jazz music.
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Language
English
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Ghostly Fun in the Sand and Sun
The wide sandy beaches, colorful boardwalks and majestic lighthouses of the Jersey Shore share supernatural secrets and unexplainable encounters...
In Absecon the dead pose as guides for a unique afterhours tour of its historic lighthouse. A reformed criminal met the apparition of his victim, learning remorse is eternal, on Long Beach Island. Newly built casinos in Atlantic City have former patrons stopping by for...
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English
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"PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed peppermint tablets marketed as an alternative to smoking. Upon arrival in the United States in 1952, PEZ quickly took a new direction, adding fruit flavors and three-dimensional character heads to top the dispensers. Now produced in Orange, Connecticut, the iconic PEZ brand is available in over eighty countries,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Contains "a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his habitual greeting, "Hey, Out There." Ranging across diverse subjects such as favorite recent reads, the challenge...