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Travels with my family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Perfect for fans of Margaret Peterson Haddix, When You Reach Me, and Savvy, this charming time-travel story from husband-and-wife team Marisa de los Santos and David Teague follows one girl's race to change the past in order to save her father's future. Thirteen-year-old Margaret knows her father is innocent, but that doesn't stop the cruel Judge Biggs from sentencing him to death. Margaret is determined to save her dad, even if it means using her...
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Series
Map to everywhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Master Thief Fin from the Khaznot Quay and suburban schoolgirl Marrill from Arizona reunite on the magical waters of the Pirate Stream to seek a mysterious and legendary wish machine"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A fascinating and comprehensive companion to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, the Last Dragon Chronicles!
A fascinating and comprehensive companion to the New York Times bestselling series, the Last Dragon Chronicles!While the New York Times bestselling Last Dragon Chronicles has come to a close, husband and wife Chris and Jay d'Lacey have collaborated on RAIN & FIRE, a fabulous companion to the series. Fans will be able to explore d'Lacey's...
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Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In "T Is for Titanic," husband-and-wife writing team Michael and Debbie Shoulders sift through the stories, documents, and artifacts surrounding the famous ship, giving a close-up view to one of the greatest disaster stories. Illustrations
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Series
Publisher
Gaviota
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Spanish translation of "The Gift of the Magi" a story in which a husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents. For elementary (4-6) school students.
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Series
Publisher
Full Tilt Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A crunching sound awakens a husband and wife as they sail around the world. Water starts to rush into their boat. They watch from a life raft as the boat sinks in only 15 minutes. That is the beginning of William and Simonne Butler's 66-day trial of survival on the ocean. Iron Will: Surviving the Sea tells the story of five shipwrecks and what it took for the survivors to endure until they were rescued. From surviving in an air pocket in a sunken...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Electric cars have been around since the 1880s. New York City had more than 600 electric taxicabs in 1907. Henry Ford's wife drove an electric car rather than her husband's popular Model T. By the 1920s, electric cars died out. People preferred cars with gas engines because they went faster and farther. When gas is burned for fuel, it causes air pollution. Air pollution is causing problems for the planet and for people. Electric cars are making a...
11) Slavery
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, a house, or table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold - a child sold from his mother, a wife from her husband. To be considered not human, but a thing that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's child, a thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you. To be a slave. To know that despite the suffering and deprivation, that...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Introduces the life of Abigail Adams, the wife of President John Adams, who was much more independent than many women of her time, running a farm in her husband's absence and speaking and writing about women's rights.