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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and a screen-door muncher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking up livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty, as he stared...
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Language
English
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"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn--both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Gone without a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the latest scientific research, the author chronicles the 40,000-year bond between humans and dogs, explaining why the two species have grown to love each other so much and relating the experiences he has had with his own dog, Benjy.
26) Noisy Nora
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the service dog who helps former U.S. Army Captain Luis Carlos Montalván overcome his combat-related wounds.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author reflects on the last Christmas he and his rescued cat named Bob spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of the toughest times of his life by providing strength, friendship, inspiration, and unconditional love.
32) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
Author
Series
In death volume 55
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who'd hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two--but they'd been equally desperate. Unfortunately, they...
35) Voice of fear
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by criminal psychologist Patrick Law, FBI agent Jordan Wallace, who was close to cracking a human trafficking case, must partner with this man whose innate ability to get inside a criminal's head may be the only thing keeping them alive.