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Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous and life-changing journey from his home in Guatemala to live with his older brother in the United States in this gripping and realistic middle grade novel.
Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead.
Everyone in Jaime's small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that's known for...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel"--
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Deserts and jungles, rebels and missionaries, bullets and acts of bravery, heaven and hell on earth-these are all part of a young man's remarkable, true journey through thirteen African countries with his brother and two best friends. Erik Mirandette was completing a two-year stint with a humanitarian organization in Morocco when, continuing his quest to live the life he was created to live, he set off on an unforgettable pilgrimage. Beginning in...
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A nations government should create order. We put faith in government to uphold and maintain the well-being and safety of its citizens. Currently, in Afghanistan, the government does not seem to maintain anything at all. In Afghanistan, starving children cry out in hunger. The government does not provide food, shelter, or schools. The countrys opium production rate has doubled over the course of the past two years. Does a country in such cultural uproar...
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True stories of life in Florida, from persevering through natural disasters and crime to encounters with celebrities and alligators. Includes photos.
More than twenty million people live in Florida, that unique land that juts off into the Atlantic. They are ranchers and golfers, sunbathers and retirees. And their lives often fall within the realm of the perfectly normal. But sometimes these Floridians, many of whom have flocked from elsewhere, find...
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Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy volume 11
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English
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Larry finds an array of qualities that make America great as he rolls through the Bluegrass State. First, he visits the great American worker at the great American plant making the great American muscle car--the Corvette.
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Only In America with Larry the Cable Guy volume 12
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English
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Larry spends some time in and around New Orleans to see the way they do things in the Big Easy. First, Gar Fishing: Larry goes after the freaky fish that is the favorite challenge of the good ol' boys of Morgan City, Louisiana.
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Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show volume 12
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English
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Hanna has never won a trophy before. The Doodlebops invite Hanna to compete in a giant Go Kart race, but when Deedee obsessed with winning everyone needs to convince her to slow down. Hanna and Deedee realize that trophies aren’t as important as having fun. / Jon shows the Doodlebops a clay castle he made and Rooney zaps it with an invention that makes it life-size. When the castle keeps growing, they realize that Jon was in such a rush to finish...
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Kathleen Phelan (nee Newton) was utterly unique; a female vagabond who embraced the freedom of the tramp lifestyle and philosophy. Like the infamous women explorers of the Victorian era, she traveled before as a single woman adventuring to every place on the planet funding her travels through canny bets on horseracing.
At age 26 in 1944, she met and married author and fellow tramp, Jim Phelan who introduced her to his literary circle. She tramped...
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HighBridge Co
Pub. Date
p2011
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English
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Lu Anne Henderson was a beautiful 15-year-old girl in Denver in 1945 when she met Neal Cassady, a fast-talking hurricane of male sexuality and vast promises. The two married, and soon they were hanging out with a group of young would-be writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. One and Only traces the immense struggles of Lu Anne's own life, which ranged from the split-up of her family during the Great Depression to losing the two most important...
17) Last year
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"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
18) Shelter in Place
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The government is after someone, but who-and why? A riveting manmade disaster thriller from the author of the popular The Journal and EMPulse series.
As the small resort town of Kapac, Ohio, prepares for their annual August festivities, another preparation is underway of a more malicious nature. A suspicious toxic spill on the only road in or out, by unknown agents, quarantines the town and threatens not only its livelihood, but also its very life....
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Love and revenge novels (Cydney Rax) volume 1
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English
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"Something's wrong with her perfect marriage, but Kiara Eason isn't sure what. Her ambitious husband Rashad is the last person who'd ever cheat--and she never imagined she'd stray. Still, why is she confiding so much in her handsome coworker Eddison? And why is she wondering what would happen if she put her marriage to the ultimate test--secretly setting Rashad up with a younger woman to see if he's tempted?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Pavilion Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In an off-beat nuanced film, Rocksy, a small-time hustler, journeys into chaos to steal a car while his lady friend Rosie hangs a watercolor painting in their modest room and dreams of peace. The fight to survive their broken dreams and aspirations forces them to commit a crime that changes their lives forever. Shot on the streets of Kingston where poverty, beauty and desperation collide, this Jamaican story transcends its Island locale to become...