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(0)Barry Moser
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men. Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community where they slept in the same bedroom and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter-only to kidnap the planter's lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It's an impulsive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The intrepid adventurer Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout try to circumnavigate the world on a wager from Phileas' friends. Their trip becomes more complicated when Phileas becomes a robbery suspect. Can they make it in time?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
A collection of traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged in such categories as "The Trickster Dog," "The Enchanted Dog," and "The Super Dog."
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended