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121) Under currents
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages...
122) Educated: a memoir
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
123) Grandma's gardens
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The authors share personal revelations on how gardening with Grandma Dorothy shapes and nurtures a love and respect for nature, beauty, and a general philosophy for life.
124) Fishing queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
December comes to Texas and there is a catfish fishing contest at Arrowhead Lake with a special prize awaiting the winning adult/child team; Kylie's brother and father are entered as one team, and Kylie Jean convinces her grandfather to enter with her as another team--and Kylie dreams of catching Granddaddy Whiskers, a legendary blue catfish that has eluded fishermen for years.
125) Far from the tree
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
The Young Adult edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
126) You Belong
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A warm and loving message of welcome to newborn babies, You Belong--a picture book from singer-songwriter Rachel Platten and illustrator Marcin Piwowarski--will touch the hearts of everyone.
I'm patiently waiting for you to arrive
I want to meet you so much I could cry
I wonder whose hands and whose eyes you will have?
I wonder if you're going to smile like your dad?
Nothing you ever do will be so wrong
You belong, you belong.
Rachel Platten...
Author
Publisher
Classical Academic Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 89 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this practical, faith-based inspirational book, the author addresses the stress, worry and anxiety of homeschooling to encourage an environment of restful learning.
128) Tell no lies
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The unsolved murder of a young activist leads to the discovery of much darker crimes in New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan's latest compelling thriller to feature the young, edgy detective Kara Quinn and the loner FBI agent Matt Costa. This time they work to uncover possible ties to a high-stakes cartel in the Southwest desert. Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the mountains just south of Tucson. When a college intern...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1860s, the United States is torn apart by Civil War. The conflict between the North and the South affects everyone, including many boys who want to join in the fight. Among them are young Edward Black, Lyston and Orion Howe, and Charles Moore. They're too young to fight in combat, but they show their courage by marching to battle as drummer boys. Like any other soldiers in the war, they risk being wounded, captured, or killed in action....
130) I love you so
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through rhyming verses, parents tell their children about their unconditional love for them.
131) Bunny my honey
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
1st U.S. board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 15 x 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Bunny gets lost and can't find his mother, he fears that Mummy and his friends may not be able to find him to take him home.
132) Mommy loves
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
Board Book col. ill. ; 14 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes how mothers love their babies, and uses various animal babies to demonstrate the numbers one to ten.
133) Close your eyes
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can be seen with one's eyes closed.
134) Doll bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
