Johnny Heller
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English
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Get to know Tom Sawyer and his friends as he gets into all kinds of shenanigans on the Mississippi River! In addition to being a fun experience, this beautifully illustrated story features original music performed by Tim Oehlers. This adapted and condensed version of the tale by Mark Twain will introduce young audiences to the beloved characters from the original and give them a taste of the adventure-filled classic. About the 10 Minute Classics series:...
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English
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Get to know Tom Sawyer and his friends as he gets into all kinds of shenanigans on the Mississippi River! In addition to being a fun experience, this beautifully illustrated story features original music performed by Tim Oehlers. This adapted and condensed version of the tale by Mark Twain will introduce young audiences to the beloved characters from the original and give them a taste of the adventure-filled classic. About the 10 Minute Classics series:...
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As the youngest bureau chief and head of the Chicago Police Department's Major Case Squad, Boone Drake seems to have it all under control. Only those closest to him know that just a few short years ago, he lost everything that mattered to him in a tragic accident. After years of healing, his life is back on track. He recently married a wonderful woman named Haeley, adopted her son, bought a beautiful home, and rediscovered his faith. But Boone can't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
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Victor Shmud total expert volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Victor, total expert at everything, finds himself at the center of an intergalactic conflict, he'll need the help of his trusty sidekick Dumpylumps the duck, and his best friend Patti, to find his way out.
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Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
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English
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During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns. Discover why such eye-catching designs were put on ships.
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books; New York Public Library Best Books for Kids; Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book; Dilys Evans Founder's Award--Awards.
[A] conversational, compelling, and visually arresting story...--Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review.
...A fascinating selection that...
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Playaway Digital Audio
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[released 2009], c2008
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1 sound media player (10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
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The authors make recommendations for promoting optimal health and longevity after age thirty in a reference that likens the aging process to the maintenance of city systems.
9) Far North
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.
10) The Lucky Stiff
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Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from “the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy” (Ed Gorman).
Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago’s sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch sets...
Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago’s sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch sets...
11) Wringer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
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Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998) was a five-term U.S. senator from Arizona whose 1964 campaign for president is credited with reviving American conservatism. His books include With No Apologies and a memoir, Goldwater. CC Goldwater is the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater and the producer of the HBO documentary Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written...
13) Safari
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English
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Stanley Hastings on safari? I don't think so. Neither did Stanley, until Alice's small inheritance—coupled with scrimping on a few luxuries like food and rent—allowed them to book a group trip to Zambia. Now the New York PI is hiking with lions, canoeing with hippos, and having close encounters with elephants and giraffes.It's a dangerous safari. The leader is a reckless, gun-ho, great white hunter who delights in leaping from the jeep...
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In this chilling novel—introducing an exciting new talent in thriller-writing—a psychiatrist is tasked with unraveling a mystery at a top-secret military base.
Winter 1967.
An arctic storm traps three soldiers at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland. When the rescue team finally reaches them, two of the soldiers have died in what seems to be an accidental fire and the third, Private Connor...
Winter 1967.
An arctic storm traps three soldiers at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland. When the rescue team finally reaches them, two of the soldiers have died in what seems to be an accidental fire and the third, Private Connor...
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Tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in...
16) The Right Murder
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English
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A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon.
It’s 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He’s been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone’s...
It’s 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He’s been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone’s...
17) Honus & Me
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English
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With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!
With historical photos and back matter to separate the facts from the fiction, New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman takes readers on a page-turning trip through baseball's past. Perfect for young readers who love time travel stories and dream about meeting history's greatest baseball players!
Joe
...18) Babe & Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!
On October 1, 1932, during Game Three of the Chicago Cubs–New York Yankees World Series, Babe Ruth belted a long home run to straightaway centerfield. According to legend, just before he hit, Babe pointed to the bleachers and boldly predicted he would slam the next pitch there.
Did he call the shot
...19) Ted & Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life!
Joe "Stosh" Stoshack has an incredible ability. He can travel through time using baseball cards. But the FBI has learned of his talent, and now they have a mission for him: go back to 1941 and warn President Roosevelt about the attack on Pearl Harbor!
Stosh is reluctant, until he finds out that his "ticket" to
...20) Roberto & Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Sometimes you can change history . . . and sometimes history can change you.
When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash. In the sixties, Stosh meets free-spirited Sunrise, and together they travel across the country to a ball game that leaves them breathless—and
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