Catalog Search Results
2) Boo!
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
A boy disguised as a monster scares his friend, his parents, and eventually himself.
Author
Formats
Description
"During the Great Depression, wretched labor camps crop up in remote areas of the expansive pine forests throughout the American South. Destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions to harvest pine gum, hacking into tree trunks, drawing out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling it to stills to be refined into turpentine. Subsistence living means racking up huge debts they are forced to work off, creating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Based on a classic fairy tale, Dashti a maid, and Lady Saren her mistress, have been imprisoned in a tower for seven years because Saren refuses to marry a man she despises. But when two new suitors appear both young women face real hope or else the possibility of life-threatening danger.
Author
Formats
Description
"A princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever. As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess’s fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in...
Description
Pistachio Disguisey is a mild-mannered waiter whose life is about to change. A criminal mastermind kidnaps his parents and is forcing his father to steal priceless treasures from around the world. His grandfather informs him he is descended from a long line of disguise artists and now it's up to Pistachio to save the day.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
11) Tried & true
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"--
13) Love in disguise
Author
Formats
Description
Jobless and down to her last dime, Ellie Moore hears about a position with the Pinkerton Detective Agency and belieee it's the perfect change to put her acting skills and costumes to use.
15) Masks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes different kinds of masks and shows how face paint can be a part of a disguise.
Author
Series
Two dogs in a trench coat volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sassy and Waldo are good dogs, who keep their house safe (from squirrels, mostly), and worry about their boy, Stewart, who always comes home from school smelling of anxiety; so the two dogs come up with a plan to help him--they will dress up in a trench coat and attend school, posing as a new student, to find out just what is bothering Stewart.
19) Why a disguise?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates how a disguise can be used to evade the school bully, Mom's lima beans, and other unpleasant things.
20) First lady
Author
Formats
Description
How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady.
.png)