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Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.
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Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back
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REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NOW AN EMMY AWARD–NOMINATED ORIGINAL STREAMING...
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Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humor, but Naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the world’s greatest ninja! In order to face off against Madara and his newly acquired Six Paths power, Guy pulls out his most dangerous move. Guy has put his very life on the line, but is it enough against Madara? Meanwhile, as Naruto fights on the edge of death, he meets a special figure...
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Language
English
Description
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history. Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. This book tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens...
Author
Series
Monstress volume 6
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"War has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends grapple with the consequences of their actions,long-buried secrets and long-awaited reunions threaten to change everything."--
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Perfectly situated in the heart of New York City, Season Six is a dream come true, offering a buyer top-of-the-line drama and danger in every direction. Relax and unwind from a long day in the lab in your luxurious, spa-like, master bath, where floor-to-ceiling windows offer spectacular views of approaching enemies from every direction.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other...
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other...
Author
Series
Descender volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A new, cataclysmic chapter of the Descender saga is here! All the various factions who have been hunting Tim-21 finally converge around the ocean planet, Mata just as the robots launch their galaxy wide revolution! But nothing can prepare the young android Tim, or the readers, for what happens next. The Descender saga comes to a startling climax and sets the stage for the next, mind bending adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Out of the Shadows tells the stories of six enterprising Victorian women whose apparent ability to move between the realms of the dead and the living allowed them to cross rigid boundaries of gender and class, and to summon unique political voices. The clairvoyance of the Fox sisters from upstate New York inspired some of the era's best-known female suffrage activists and set off an international séance craze. Emma Hardinge Britten left behind a...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries." — Library Journal, Starred Review
A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.
Gender bias is a powerful but hidden force that is still holding women back, keeping them from achieving their full potential and limiting
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The story of civilization from an entirely new vantage point--the six raw materials that have shaped and will continue to shape humanity's destiny. Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium: The struggle for these fundamental materials has created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and our greed for thousands of years. It is a story that is far from finished. Though we are told we now live in a weightless world of information, we...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin while learning about why these deserts are in danger and how to save them"--
"Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin. This meticulously illustrated picture book takes readers on a cross-continental tour in 24 hours, visiting 6 different deserts at different hours...
Author
Series
Cleopatra in space volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The time has come for Cleo to fulfill the ancient prophecy that declares her a savior and a hero, a prophecy she still struggles to accept. Cleo is joined by both old and new friends as they fight to defend the galaxy she's come to call home against the evil Xaius Octavian. The Queen of the Nile must summon the strength to face down her enemy one last time, and keep her friends--and herself-- alive"--
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
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