Various Readers
1) Empty vows
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
2) The House
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradbury presents a novel dealing with a timeless parable of friendship, fear and loss where youth invariably abandons its youthful dreams before crossing the threshold to adult responsibility.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Has anyone ever told you gamers out there that your time would be better spent studying? Well, don't let go of that joystick just yet! Turns out, advancing to that next level of Super Mario Brothers has a similar effect on your brain as getting an A on your spelling test. Video games have been successful at training elite groups in the U.S. military and future doctors. Discover how they can help boost your brain power too!
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered the first true detective story Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, it introduced many hallmarks of detective fiction, including an English country house setting, bungling local policemen, and a large number of false suspects. In it, Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday...
Author
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A love and dating guidebook that gleans knowledge from people in a variety of nontraditional relationships.It features life advice from people making open relationships work to people who have decided they are never going to have kids.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents facts about the lack of sanitation, personal hygiene, dental care, antibiotics, and insecticides in eighteenth-century America and the unfortunate results this had on everyday living conditions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 25x31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Books in the Hide and Seek series provide an entertaining introduction to some of the words that tell us where things are. This book looks at "Inside" and "Outside", and features an animal character called Eddie the Elephant who is playing hide-and-seek. On each spread, Eddie is hiding using one of the two opposite words featured in the book's title, and the reader is asked to find him. The fun, cartoon-like design combined with the interactive "hide-and-seek"...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the nature of food politics, covering such topics as factory and industrial farming, the effect of climate change on the food supply, genetic engineering, and how the needs of the world's starving population can be met.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the sport of turkey hunting, including its rich history, specific gear, special techniques, safety requirements, and conservation efforts.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes sports and entertainment inventions, including the tennis ball, baseball glove, roller coaster, electric guitar, and skateboard.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col.map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year ... and no one knows why.
17) Lizards
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about lizards, where they live, what they eat, and how they stay safe in their extreme climate.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Edwina is well-known in her neighborhood, she plays with kids, she bakes delicious chocolate chip cookies and helps old ladies cross the street. She is well-loved by everyone except for one person: Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie. He knows for a fact that dinosaurs are extinct and tries to convince everyone that they are. What happens when Edwina finds out?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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