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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaners from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions--stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
With one week until the end of all crime in the United States, can the last heist in American history be pulled off? In the not-too-distant future as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. To keep this from the public, the government creates a distraction, installing a new currency system using digital charge cards. Enter:...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"No racing in the haul-ways! From the ... author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a look at seven adorable train cars on their first day of school. All aboard the train-car pool! A new lineup of students is off and rolling to Choo-Choo School. After reciting their classroom rules -- Work hard, play fair, be kind -- it's time for some math to get the wheels turning. Then everyone's ready to climb a hill in gym (it's good to blow off steam), sing songs in music...
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan." --Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Cafe Leila, the restaurant...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jordan, a Vatican commander, has built a career on vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted medieval Europe, but increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden"
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Born in Birmingham, Alabama, once known as the "most segregated city" in the United States, Freeman Hrabowski discovered the courage to stand up for civil rights and educational opportunity when he heard Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call and joined the Children's March in 1963. Along with other protesting students, 12-year old Freeman spent five terrifying days in jail. But the march, the arrests, and the experience, led to desegregation in Birmingham...
Publisher
ITN Sales, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The high price on his head has made Billy an evasive target for bounty hunters from all over the old west, and Billy knows that every time he rides out, he has a chance of getting bushwhacked. Unlike any other account of the Billy the Kid saga, the movie captures the fury, paranoia and heartbreak that defined the last days of the gunslinger's existence.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Gina Barreca is fed up with women who lean in, but don't open their mouths. In her latest collection of essays, she turns her attention to subjects like bondage which she notes now seems to come in fifty shades of grey and has been renamed Spanx. She muses on those lessons learned in Kindergarten that every woman must unlearn like not having to hold the hand of the person you're waking next to (especially if he's a bad boyfriend) or needing to have...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
No other outlaws in American history became more famous than Missouri's Frank and Jesse James. From 1866 to 1882, they led a gang that robbed banks and held up trains, continually defying the Yankee authorities in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sad Vacation is an up close and personal account of the tumultuous and stormy relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and how it ended in Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel. Directed by Danny Garcia (The Rise and Fall of The Clash, Looking for Johnny), this films holds no punches and reveals the facts through personal friends, insiders and witnesses providing a first hand account of Sid and Nancy's mysterious deaths.