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Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of Harper Lee, the girl who grew up to write To Kill a Mockingbird, from Bethany Hegedus and Erin McGuire. Perfect for fans of The Right Word and I Dissent. Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire. Unlike most girls at that time and place, Nelle preferred overalls to dresses and climbing trees to tea parties. Nelle loved to watch her daddy try cases in the...
64) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Samuel Long, who escapes slavery in Virginia by traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods, where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson on human dignity, culminating in a climactic act of civil disobedience"--
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the English author and illustrator who grew up during the Victorian era and whose detailed drawings of plants and animals found their way into her famous picture books.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color iiustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Elwyn White lay in bed as a sickly child, a bold house mouse befriended him. When the time came for kindergarten, an anxious Elwyn longed for the farm, where animal friends awaited him at the end of each day. Propelled by his fascination with the outside world, he began to jot down his reflections in a journal. Writing filled him with joy, and words became his world. Today, Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web are beloved classics of children's...
69) Class: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur investigates the seemingly unsuspicious death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition who had a very extensive collection of crime novels, each one dedicated to her and each containing a mysterious post-script.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his "search for joy" led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally back to an assured Christianity compatible with his formidable intellect. With no pretense, Lewis describes
...78) Comfort and joy
Author
Physical Desc
719 p. ; /c 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brimming with holiday romance and Christmas miracles, this collection features Fern Michaels' "Comfort and Joy," in which Angie Bradford faces more confrontations with store owner, Josh Eagle, until a powerful storm brings them together.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In a story inspired by the modern and groundbreaking writing of Gertrude Stein herself, not alot makes sense. Enter the whimsical world of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. In this tribute to Gertrude Stein, a colorfully illustrated picture book captures the beauty and joy of appreciating art and reading words in a unique and imaginative way.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
