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983) Street magic
Author
Series
Circle opens volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Former "street rat" Briar Moss must face his past when he discovers a young mage in need of a mentor.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Recovering from a shocking act of violence, Cory Chase, classicist and mythographer, decides that taking part in The Papyrus Project, which aims to restore the charred scrolls of Pompeii, might offer her a much needed escape. That is until she suspects that the Modern Pythagoreans, a cult who believe that a lost manuscript of Pythagoras may still exist, are also interested in the scrolls. Suddenly Cory finds herself following a trail that leads her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the “English” world, a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test the limits of their parents’ religion to the breaking point. The murder of one and the abduction of another challenge Professor Michael Branden as he confronts the communal fear that the young people can never be brought home safely. Along with Holmes County Sheriff Bruce Robertson and Pastor Cal Troyer, Professor...
986) Fury: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants. Escaping with his family to New York City and its crowded streets, Malik seeks to extinguish himself and forget the life he left behind in London.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While five little mice at Mouseford Academy are looking for their missing biology professor, they dive to a haunted shipwreck off Whale Island to find a rare diamond that was lost when the ship sank.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Teachers inspire students every day, and this new collection provides some much-needed inspiration for these dedicated educators. With great stories about teaching from teachers and stories of thanks from students, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers makes for a great teacher gift all year round!Teachers will love the books heartfelt, inspiring, and humorous stories from inside and outside the classroom. Stories from teachers and students...
989) Sedition: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The setting: London, 1794. The problem: Four nouveau riche fathers with five marriageable daughters. The plan: The young women will learn to play the piano, give a concert for young Englishmen who have titles but no fortunes, and will marry very well indeed. The complications: The lascivious (and French) piano teacher; the piano maker's jealous (and musically gifted) daughter; the one of these marriageable daughters with a mating plan of her own....
Author
Series
Peter Shandy volume 9
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
"Although real murder is never a laughing matter, Charlotte MacLeod makes the fictional kind more fun than anyone else. Her latest outing with Professor Peter Shandy, New England's famous horticulturist and homegrown hercule Poirot, takes us to the Maine coast, a world of stormy seas and verdant gardens where dark and bright are strangely mixed... and where secrets abound." "Peter Shandy has journeyed northward alone to escape his wife Helen's all-female...
Author
Series
Flower power books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"The Flower Power girls plot to bring two of their teachers together in a matchmaking scheme at their school's "Kids Night In.""--
993) Olivia talks Turkey
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Olivia perfects her turkey call and ends up with a turkey who wants to be her pet! Olivia can't keep the turkey, but luckily she knows someone else who is an expert turkey talker!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
995) The sixth form
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ethan Whitley attends an elite New England prep school, he is invited into a world of privilege and desire where he discovers the price of betrayal when he is drawn into an investigation of the death of another student.
996) The green
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a caterer. But Michael's world is turned upside down when he is accused of engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' with a male student. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Impoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous, studious girl seated nearby, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling, yearning to break free from...
1000) Emily of Deep Valley
Author
Series
Deep Valley books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint-shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!-can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern." -Laura Lippman"There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace." -Anna QuindlenOften considered Maud Hart Lovelaces best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous volume includes...