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Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xi, 141 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Essential Smart Football" is an examination of football's most important strategies, ideas, and concepts, through the lens of the game's best coaches, players, and schemes.
Author
Series
Baby biochemist volume 1
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 vol. (unpaged) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn about DNA, what it is and how it "instructs" our bodies to do many cellular functions. Engaging illustrations help explain this biochemistry concept for young readers.
3) Seraphina
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares step-by-step guidelines for overcoming blocks, moving past fear, and making real-world money, revealing how personal perceptions and bank accounts reflect obstructive beliefs that can be rendered lucrative through strategic concept changes.
5) Everblaze
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
609 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sophie's talents are getting stronger and, with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she is determined to find her kidnappers but a daring mistake pushes her world to the edge of war, and soon she has exposed a a major conspiracy that could threaten all she loves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
7) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having and taking care of a pet is a special part of life. Pets often bring us joy when we're happy and comfort when we're sad. Unfortunately, no matter how well we take care of our pets, like all living things, they'll eventually die. The death of a pet hurts, but it's something all pet owners experience. This book offers gentle explanations of tough concepts such as euthanasia and cremation to help a child understand a pet's passing. It also discusses...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
2020 New York Times Bestseller
"In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask--yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and "reverse...
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers that RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing--mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rain forest without a trace. Glory...
16) Unwind
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.
The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs work. Some days, it seems like her CF is the only thing Penny knows about herself for sure. From her point of view, everyone around her can make sense of their place in the world. So why can't Penny even begin to write a poem about herself for school? Then during spring break Penny spots something impossible in the creek behind her house: a dolphin,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jude lives in a coastal tourist town in Syria where many people go to get away. While Jude wants to become a movie star, her older brother, Issa, wants more from their future than the oppression overtaking their beloved country. As the tumult crawls closer to Jude's home, Issa yearns to join the revolution in Aleppo, Baba refuses to leave his seaside store, and Mama believes the safest place for Jude, herself, and the baby she is carrying...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.