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English
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Tarzan of the Apes is a coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. His father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, and his mother dies of natural causes. At one year old, Clayton is adopted by the she-ape Kala and renamed Tarzan, or "white-skin" in the ape language.
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
304 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Veteran farm tractor author Robert Pripps offers concise descriptions and histories along with specification charts that give information on horsepower, engine sizes, fuel types and more. Includes over 200 photographs spanning more than a century of tractors.
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Series
Language
English
Description
" Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation's annual Christmas party. The dog rescue organization has always been his true calling, and this is one holiday tradition he can get behind because every dog that's come through the rescue--and their families--are invited to celebrate. This year's party is no exception. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin the evening. Derek Moore, one of...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
149 p.
Language
English
Description
Christmas Jars has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and was a New York Times best-selling novel. This beautiful hardcover collector's edition contains the complete text of the bestselling fictional holiday favorite as well as more than twenty true, inspiring stories of people who have experienced the Christmas Jar miracle in their own lives by either giving or receiving an anonymous jar full of coins. Hope Jensen is a young, single woman...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A clever young boy loves his old car, which has been everywhere, from the backyard to the sky, from the hills to the water, in this delightful story from an iconic children's author duo.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
200 p.
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, Hope Jensen has a goal to place 1,001 jars of spare change with families in need. Her Christmas Jars ministry-headquartered in the famous Chuck's Chicken 'n' Biscuits diner-is the same place Hope was discovered as a newborn and the same place she was reunited with her birthmother. Helping her reach her goal is an assortment of helpful friends and family, including Clark Maxwell. Romance has never been Hope's strong suit, but there...
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Publisher
Publications International, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
416 pages
Language
English
Description
Cars of the 1960s tells the story of a tumultuous decade that saw a shift from chrome and tailfins to powerful muscle cars. Featured vehicles include: the Ford Mustang, the Pontiac GTO, and the luxury Buick Riviera. Period street scenes and advertising help deliver an immersive experience of the magnificent machines that helped make this decade great. In addition, there are year-by-year overviews of major news and cultural events.
14) Treasure Island
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Who can outsmart a pack of pirates and the murderous Long John Silver? Who is fearless enough to single-handedly board a ship and steal it back? Who else but the most daring lad of all -- young Jim Hawkins! Get ready for excitement and terror -- from the moment Jim finds a treasure map to the final hunt for buried gold.
16) Watership Down
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
17) Persuasion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire...
18) The giving tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
20) Yorick and Bones
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
130 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. He speaks like it too. 'Forsooth, my joy, I barely can contain!' Bones is the hungry dog who did the digging. Though he cannot speak, he can chomp. What will become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever find the friend he seeks? Will Bones ever find a tasty treat that does not talk back? The course of true friendship never did run smooth."