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(0)Kathryn Lasky
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author. Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won't be going to the theater anytime soon. It's a hot Indiana summer in 1952, and public places from pools to camps are closing to slow the spread of polio. Despite all the headlines, Georgie never thought she'd
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Newbery Honor Author: "A marvelous adventure . . . There is an astonishingly detailed mythology, language, and history to the beaver world . . . enchanting." —Booklist (starred review)
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a secret—a colony of beavers, a species coveted for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider the destruction of their land. No beaver has been...
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a secret—a colony of beavers, a species coveted for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider the destruction of their land. No beaver has been...
3) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
4) Shadow wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After earning the right to return to the wolf pack that abandoned him, the exiled Faolan joins the clan as a lowly "gnaw wolf," but his goal of rising in the pack order is threatened when a jealous rival frames him for an unspeakable crime.
5) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually...
6) Watch wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faolan, poised to take his place as a member of the revered Wolves of the Watch, may be the only one who can stop Dunbar MacHeath and his clan from provoking a war between the Watch and the bears.
7) Frost wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a terrible danger threatens the wolves of the Beyond, outsider Faolan must take a leadership role and inspire the pack to stand together.
8) Spirit wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When earthquakes and erupting volcanoes strike the Beyond, Faolan and the other surviving wolves must head for the Distant Blue, where they hope to find a new home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
This box set contains the first three books by Kathryn Lasky, which are the basis of the animated movie, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
The Capture, Book One. Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and Soren is captured and imprisoned in a dark canyon where there is a mysterious school. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far
...10) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies against the Pure Ones who are about to launch another deadly attack against the great tree. The Grand Battle begins with the search for allies in the Northern Kingdoms and ends in The Burning that will change all Owldom forever. Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic...
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world.
12) To be a king
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
13) The golden tree
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The golden age which is expected from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree turns gradually worse as the owls' young king hunts for the truth about his ancestry.
14) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
15) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Even though Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared ... In order to rescue him, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest."--Page 4 of cover.
16) Star wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A new land awaits the wolves of the Beyond. A great cold and a powerful earthquake have shattered the Beyond forever, and the wolves must find a new home in order to survive. Their only hope lies in what they call the Distant Blue, a faint haze they can make out beyond the frozen sea. Once an outcast, Faolan has spent a lifetime proving that he can be a leader. But as he steps out onto the narrow Ice Bridge the wolves will follow to the Distant Blue,...
17) The siege
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor"--Page 4 of cover.
18) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The brave owls of Ga'Hoole are back in their second mythic adventure as they strive to preserve owldom from the evil that lurks around them. Join the owls in their quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the legendary place where ordinary owls are transformed into the heroes that guard the owl kingdom. Out of the darkness a hero will rise... It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises...
19) The outcast
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nyroc has glimpsed a new destiny in the of his father's bones. In search of that destiny leaves for The Beyond the Beyond.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. Includes information about the history of the period, a family tree, and contemporary portraits.