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Author
Publisher
[Green Turtle Press]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Solstice Badger tells the tale of the days when the Sun shone all day long, every day. One day there came a badger that found a way to get close to the sun, and soon the two became great friends. Staying longer and longer each day with his friend, the Sun's absence from the sky eventually caused the skies to darken and snow to fall. Robin McFadden's engrossing tale and ethereal illustrations bring the Sun's story to a satisfying conclusion as...
Author
Series
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 410L
Language
English
Description
In 1914, the world's biggest countries (and some of its smallest, too) were gearing up for a massive fight. Land, history, geography -- each country came to war for different reasons and with different resources. But most ended up the same: sending their young men to fight for their lives in the mud, on the sea, and in the air, in a conflict that would eventually claim more than 9 million lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 940L
Language
English
Description
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasnt just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one persons life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it changed the world. The book takes readers through the history...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 325
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first...
88) Superman
Language
English
Description
The fallout from the Man of Steel miniseries has Clark Kent looking at the world through new eyes... with new ideas about what Superman could and should do for the city of Metropolis and the planet Earth.
The villainous Arclight has returned and the Man of Steel is the only one who can stop him. Plus, Jimmy Olsen quits the Daily Planet!
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.
92) Smoking kills
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help kick the habit. At first the treatment is a success but, as the stresses of daily life begin to overwhelm him, he can't help lighting up again. To his great distress, he finds that smoking no longer offers him the ecstatic release it once did. Until, that is, he stumbles across a criminal way to recapture that intense nicotine joy...
Author
Publisher
Plan B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Pacasso nos presenta lo mejor de dos géneros, el cómic y el stand up juntos, en la voz de su conocido personaje, el Dr. Netas, que con un gran sentido del humor hace una crítica sin cuartel de la sociedad mexicana, y de paso nos demuestra que la risa es una gran herramienta para entender el mundo que nos rodea."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Orion Children's
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
All of the Asterix stories feature references to Obelix falling into the Druid's Cauldron of magic potion when he was about six years old. This was the event through which he derived his phenomenal physical strength. Here is the full story of how it happened.
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawing with Christopher Hart, an imprint of Get Creative 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on the mega-success of Christopher Hart's Manga Mania series, Mega Manga Mania combines curated content from each previous Manga Mania book (Girl Power!, Romance, and Shonen) into one giant volume. Manga fans will enjoy having such a wide variety of how-to-draw manga instruction in one convenient book. The dynamic artwork and first-rate instruction that has made this series a success is fully apparent in this version, which showcases the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When an impoverished but charming Englishman, Archie Moffam, marries the daughter of tough American millionaire Daniel Brewster, the stage is set for a characteristic Wodehouse encounter between characters, cultures and nations. Much of the action takes place in Brewster's New York hotel where Archie eventually emerges triumphant, but only after a series of comic misadventures involving a snake, a waiter, a pie-eater, a song-writer, a tearful union...
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