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For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
Author
Series
Vera books volume 2
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Vera cannot wait for the day when she starts school, but the first day does not go exactly as she has anticipated.
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English
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America the Beautiful
Around the World: August in North America
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month
Around the World: August in North America
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
6) Anya's ghost
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
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Series
After-school superstars volume 02
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose...
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Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida -- especially not a group of friends so intense, so layered with private tragedies and secret codes, and so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and most serious person Sloane has ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother...
10) Orphan
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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When a family adopts Esther, a nine-year-old Russian orphan with a tragic background, mysterious and disturbing events start occurring around the family and Esther's new classmates in school.
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English
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As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers' firsthand experiences in some of today's most demanding schools, leading education experts Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich...
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In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared -- making headlines across the world -- only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play? Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She's back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card-stealing ex and pending grad school loans. Enter the perfect job, a research position...
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2014.
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English
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"An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's long gone and driven by a deep fear of being an orphan...
15) Betsy and Joe
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Series
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English
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Story of Betsy-Tacy and Tib, seniors in the class of 1910, who have typical teen-age problems.
16) First daughter
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Samantha just wants a normal school experience away from her parents. The problem is her dad is the President of the United States! She heads off to college with Secret Service in tow and falls for a boy with secrets of his own.
Author
Series
Betsy-Tacy stories volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After a blissful summer of closeness with his mother in the safe confines of their home, Norman returns to school and is flooded with fears about what really happened with Blaire Watson. Norma is forced to face the truth about Norman for the first time and turns for support to the other man in her life, Norman's half-brother Dylan. This relationship triggers Norman's jealousy and a new kind of love triangle erupts between Norma and her two sons.