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1) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things—to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it’s not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there’s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family’s...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
Author
Series
Tennis shoes volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tale of two hills. One in Judea. The other in the promised land. One hill is a place of indescribable suffering and pain, ascending to ultimate triumph and salvation. The other presents a scene of indescribable suffering and pain spiraling into ultimate destruction and genocide. Join all of our immortal characters from the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series--Joshua, Harry, Steffanie, Meagan, Gidgiddonihah, and MORE--as they witness, endure, and transcend...
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
205 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergallactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
8) Half lost
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The magical, stunning conclusion to the internationally acclaimed Half Bad trilogy. The Alliance is losing. Their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Brynn, has killed fifty-two people, and yet he's no closer to ending the tyrannical, abusive rule of the Council of White Witches in England. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved, before she committed an unthinkable crime....
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of vintage 1930s-1940s Bendy comic strips is a must-have for those wanting to peek into the silly, scary world of Bendy and his friends! For those dying to know more about the simple, darkly funny cartoons produced at Joey Drew Studios, look no further than this illustrated collection of comics based on the exploits of Bendy, Boris the Wolf, Alice Angel, and all their friends! This collection of vintage comic strip adaptations brings...
10) When it's real
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Meet Oakley Ford -- teen celebrity, renowned pop star, child of famous movie stars, hottie with millions of fangirls and a reputation as a restless, too-charming troublemaker. On the surface he has it all, but with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry, and the tabloids having a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley's team decides it's time for an intervention. The result: an image overhaul, complete with a fake...
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Bear hears about his grandfather's exploits as a sea captain when they are cleaning out the attic together.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl's dull life is transformed when she meets and befriends an extraordinary talking mole that likes to be read to and tell of his own past exploits throughout the centuries.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Wide and full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (393 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Jerry Christmas: paws for a holiday. Join TOm nd Jerry for the thrill of the chase, with a few winter chills thrown in, as they dash through the snow -- headed straigt for hilarious mishaps.
Scooby-doo! winter wonderdog. Scooby-Doo and the gang face off against festive frights, frosty nights, and the ghost of Christmas, who wants to wish everyone a scary Christmas! And the gang unwrap a series of mysteries in order to stop a group of chilling...
Publisher
Etch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Zooming off to Dubai for her next caper! It's up to Carmen and her crew to stop VILE from stealing a high-speed supercar to use for their evil exploits. But when an old rivalry gets in the way, can Carmen and the gang make a new plan before it's too late? High speeds and high stakes await in the City of Gold!
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