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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy discovers his passion for dance and becomes a modern hero in this inspiring picture book biography of Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called 'Quirks'? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce...
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Series
My weird school volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When boring Mr. Loring retires, A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.
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Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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The further confessions of teenaged Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her.
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Language
English
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Description
Dancing With the Stars sensation Amy Purdy reveals the story of how losing her legs led her to find a spiritual path. When the Las Vegas native was just nineteen, she contracted bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: "You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, it's all going to make sense in the end." In that moment,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage"--
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Language
English
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Description
A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate her remarkable range-from...
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English
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Down where my love lives is a bittersweet love story of one man's spiritual journey trough the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. The Dead don't dance is the story of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with both love and loss. Will the music of his heart be stilled forever or will he choose to dance with life once more? Maggie is the...
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Language
English
Description
Life went sideways for Ray Neighbor one night before Christmas when he decided to take an warm, idling Chevrolet for a joyride -- only to find out it belonged to "Santa," who was using it to deliver presents to needy kids. From there he got his baptism in jail, and was shipped off to the Navy, where he became a lifeguard in Hawaii. He was in and out of prisons for decades, fighting for his dignity and self-respect in a shadow-world that most people...
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Language
English
Description
In a beautifully-woven tale of intermixing timelines, Kathryn's memoir recounts a childhood of fleeting moments of beauty and unimaginable heartbreak at the hands of a devil.
When Kathryn's mom Blanche leaves their father, moves the family, and marries his cousin, an unknown evil enters her world. Still a young girl, Kathryn and her two sisters suffer sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at the hands of their mother's new husband, Don.
Using...
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Language
English
Description
Dancing in the Dash tells the inspiring and compelling story of a woman whose experiences have taken her around the world. Lauri Fitz-Pegado has had a remarkable life performing in the arts, embracing activism and advocacy, and working in the world of policy, politics, and diplomacy. She became a career diplomat, a presidential appointee in the Clinton Administration at the Department of Commerce under Secretary Ron Brown, and she met with renowned...
17) Born to run
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Language
English
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Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his...
18) Total FREAK-out
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Tulah Jones is a zombie, and only two friends and her younger brother know, but at the moment three problems confront her--she needs a way to earn money to support her raw meat habit, her hunger-fueled rages are getting worse, and she would really like Jeremy Romero to ask her to the school's Monster Mash Dance.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A narrator describes all the ways in which her cat and father are--or are not--alike. They both love milk (we see them with milk mustaches) and sardines (ew!). They both start their mornings with stretches (yoga routine) and their afternoons with naps. What starts out as a humorous series of comparisons and visual gags takes a more meaningful turn when we realize the narrator may not be much like her parents at all. In the end, the narrator proclaims,...
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Language
English
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Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances.
Sherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades-from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning War Dances-have...