John McDonough
62) Bear says thanks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Bear has come up with the perfect way to say thanks--a nice big dinner! When Bear decides to throw a feast, his friends show up one by one with different platters of delicious food to share. There's just one problem: Bear's cupboards are bare! What is he to do?
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary...
64) Sunwing
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Shade, a young silverwing bat, is searching the countryside for his father when he discovers a huge glass building. When he flies inside, he finds a forest haven where, safe from predatory owls, hundreds of bats are finally living in the sunlight. But when he tries to find an exit, Shade quickly realizes that instead of a paradise, the building is really a prison. From there, bats are taken to laboratories, where they are fitted with bombs and used...
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jonathan London serves up another winner in the widely adored Froggy series. What should Froggy do for his mother's birthday? He could make a cake! Of course whenever Froggy does anything it never turns out exactly as he expects. Froggy mixes up the flour, the sugar, the chocolate candy his mother had hidden since Halloween, and a whole box of baking powder-what could possibly go wrong? John McDonough cheerfully and exuberantly narrates this tale...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Keneally has written as astonishing, monumental work the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners--including Keneally's ancestors--who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, Australia and America.
72) Bear snores on
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.
73) Jip: his story
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1998, 1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
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Brimming with pleasing plot twists, this heartwarming sequel to best-seller A Miracle for St. Cecilia's (K1034) demonstrates the power of prayer and the courage of compassion. Robbed by his construction partner, Barry struggles to complete a riverfront hotel and pay off menacing mobsters. But while he and dozens of other denizens of Dorsetville await God's help, a series of events helps transform the town forever. John McDonough strikes just the right...
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Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
2005
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Richard Koeppel's obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected over seven thousand species, becoming one of about ten people ever...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Born a veritable great lion of God to a devout Jewish family, Saul of Tarsus is raised by his parents to embrace their love of humanity. Dogged by what he perceives as a lack of true faith, he embarks on a journey to save his people from sacrilege. But on the road to Damascus a vision of the resurrected Jesus changes the course of his life. Converting to Christianity, the newly christened Paul transforms from persecutor of blasphemers into apostle...
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 34
Description
Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.
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Duke Classics
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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....