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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Presents correspondence between Rosa Parks and various children in which the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement" answers questions and encourages young people to reach their highest potential.
242) Paul: a biography
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Offers a radical look at the life of the apostle, focusing on the essence of Paul's life and an understanding of his Jewish heritage.
243) Love, Holly: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Ever since an accident three years ago, Holly has been part of a lonely-hearts letter-writing club for the holidays. The tradition is something she has come to treasure: Each December, she writes to a stranger who is also spending Christmas alone and receives a letter from another lonely person. Usually, the letters go unanswered. That's the point--the letters are anonymous, and the sender writes whatever is in their heart. But this year, the letter...
244) Ice cream summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
245) Dearest Josephine
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love"--
1821: Elias Roch met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again. 2021: In the wake of her father's death Josie De Clare finds Elias's letters-- and falls in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. Star-crossed doesn't even begin...
247) Not That it Matters
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Excerpt: "These five plays were written, in the order in which they appear now, during the years 1916 and 1917. They would hardly have been written had it not been for the war, although only one of them is concerned with that subject. To his other responsibilities the Kaiser now adds this volume. For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier. Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist,...
248) Shooter
Author
Publisher
Amistad/HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder-a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work.
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with family, friends, and fans as never...
Author
Formats
Description
"In Jesus Is Risen, #1 bestselling author David Limbaugh provides a riveting account of the birth of Christianity. Using the Book of Acts and six New Testament epistles as his guide, Limbaugh takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the sorrow and suffering, as well as the joys and triumphs, of the apostles and other key figures as Christianity bursts through the borders of Judea following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Historian Ronald White examines Lincoln's astonishing oratory and explores his growth as a leader, a communicator, and a man of deepening spiritual conviction. Examining a different speech, address, or public letter in each chapter, White tracks the evolution of Lincoln's rhetoric from the measured, lawyerly tones of the First Inaugural to the haunting, immortal poetry of the Gettysburg Address. As a speaker who appealed not to intellect alone, but...
Author
Series
Josie Prescott antiques mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Antiques appraiser Josie Prescott is in the midst of filming a segment for her new television show. Josie's Antiques, when the assistant director interrupts to let her know she has a visitor. Josie reluctantly pauses production and goes outside, where she finds an elegant older woman waiting to see her. Veronica Sutton introduces herself as an old friend of Josie's father, who had died twenty years earlier. Veronica seems fidgety, and after only...
254) Whisper to me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal demons and family tragedy, and the bumps along the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and self-discovery.
Author
Publisher
Global Publishing Services
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Escape into this odyssey and you will find yourself reckoning with the actual account of the Apostle Paul's historic shipwreck recorded in the Bible. In September of 2000, Bob Cornuke flew to Malta. That trip marked the start of nearly two years of research and discovery in search of the lost anchors described in Acts. The true story of The Lost Shipwreck of Paul reads like a gripping fiction novel, as Cornuke takes readers along with him into the...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book.
Cronkite, an obscure United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940. When he became a credentialed war correspondent, Cronkite would console himself during their separation by writing her long, detailed letters-- sometimes five in a week-- describing his experiences, his observations...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the midst of adjusting to middle school and having a girlfriend, Franklin "Ike" Saturday's life becomes even more complicated when he writes a letter to Benjamin Franklin as an extra-credit assignment and gets a reply, beginning a correspondence that could change history.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Description
This volume contains a series of predictions made by H. G. Wells as to the ramifications of World War I, covering such areas as politics, economics, border changes, education, media, law, and more.
Contents include:
"Forecasting The Future",
"The End Of The War",
"Nations In Liquidation",
"Braintree, Bocking, And The Future Of The World",
"How Far Will Europe Go Toward Socialism?",
"Lawyer And Press",
"The New Education",
"What The War Is...
259) Bunny mail
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While Ruby plans a Fourth of July doll picnic, Max sends letters to Santa to ask for "a bright red Sand-Spitter Motorcycle with Bigfoot tires, " but the letters are delivered to his grandmother, instead, and she must try to decipher the pictures. Includes lift-up flaps.
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The library: Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
The gardener: A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
The journey: A young Amish girl tells her "silent friend," her diary, about all the wonderous experiences...
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