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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Description
During World War I, the influenza pandemic ultimately killed more people around the world than the war itself. The Last Town on Earth takes as its launching point a striking historical footnote: some uninfected towns were so terrified of the surrounding flu that they closed their entrances, posted signs warning strangers not to enter, and even stationed armed guards to make sure no outsiders brought infection into their communities. Mullen incisively...
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Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Michael Havel was flying over Idaho en route to the holiday home of his passengers when the plane's engines inexplicably died, forcing a less than perfect landing in the wilderness. And, as Michael leads his charges to safety, he begins to realize that the engine failure was not an isolated incident.Juniper Mackenzie was singing and playing guitar in a pub when her small Oregon town was thrust into darkness. Cars refused to start. Phones were silent....
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
12) The homing
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1994
Description
An evil scientist terrorizes a California community with killer bees. They use human bodies to procreate and in some cases they take control of people's minds. By the author of Guardian.
15) Cannery row
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002, 1945.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
16) Unfadeable
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
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