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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Learning becomes fun in Over on a Mountain: A high altitude baby animal counting book about the ecosystem on a mountain. Sung to the tune of "Over in the Meadow", this informative and fun rhyming format and amazing artwork in this children's book will inspire children in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us!
Discover twenty cool animals, ten great mountain ranges, and seven continents all in one story! And, do it in the age-old...
22) Love without end
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"Chet and Kimberly have both failed when it comes to love. Willthey risk their hearts to love again?Chet Leonard's life was forever changed when his seventeen yearold son died and then, soon after, his wife walked out on their family. Over two years later, all he wants to do is hold onto his horse ranch and raise his remaining sons to be honorable men. Kimberly Welch, widowed mother of Tara, a rebellious fifteen-year-old, has reached the end of...
23) At any cost
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Forensic Instincts volume 9
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Aimee Bregman had the perfect life. She had an enviable job as head of marketing for an up-and-coming CBD-infused beer that was taking the tri-state area by storm. She had an attentive, steady boyfriend and friends who believed in her. Everything was going right. But when her long-time mentor, Rita, sets up a business meeting with an important influencer--her life crashes all around her. The casual meeting over drinks suddenly devolves into a shouting...
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With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.
This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of...
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A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed...
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Legend has it that the only way to find a unicorn is to know where to look and how to craft a beautiful gift that shows her you are a friend. If you're lucky, she may even take you for a ride! So, gather some natural craft supplies like daisies, vines, ferns, apples, and grass, and get ready to find a magical new friend. If your heart is pure, you just might discover a unicorn in the wild. By being resourceful, careful, and kind, you can make beautiful...
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Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening's counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Larry Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and letting them naturally evolve over time
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Purls and prayers volume 2
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"Fair Meadows Retirement Community might as well be a country club for most of the retirees enjoying the pool, golf course, and book clubs. But for the caregivers whose family members reside upstairs in the special Memory Care Unit, vacation is over. Comforting these caregivers is exactly why the Woolgatherers group has formed. They make prayer shawls to support those affected by the heartbreaking reality of not being recognized by a loved one-people...
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"From one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl's most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to "investigate" it--as though it were...
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"Praise for Joan Aiken's stories: "Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising. should be cherished."--Publishers Weekly "Darkly whimsical stories. Aiken writes with surpassing spirit and alertness, her elegant restraint and dry wit never fail to leave their mark."--Kirkus Reviews"Will appeal to readers of short stories and literary fiction. Highly recommended."--Library Journal "Aiken's pastoral meadows and circus chaos, gothic grotesques...