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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lucas and Clara are floating on a raft when a wave casts them into the sea, where Lucas catches a glimpse of a coral kindom and a dark-haired mermaid helps him, but when his father, King Caleb, hears of this, he scolds Lucas and tells him he has broken an age-old pact.
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English
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Sebastian is a middle school boy from a rural village in England, west of London proper. Disillusioned and tired of the interminably grey skies and seemingly endless humdrum days of his homeland, he longs for the great adventures of his heroes that he just knows are somewhere out there waiting for him.On one normal and unsuspecting day, while on a forested path heading to school, he gazes up ahead to the strangest and most wondrous sight he's ever...
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English
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Since the advent of the first U.S. postage stamp in 1847, stamps have become a part of the American landscape, providing a window into the individuals, achievements, and beauty of this great nation. This book gives a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the more colorful, creative, and controversial stamps were produced. Stories include political influence; famous movie stars and sports figures; design challenges that occasionally resulted in law...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Residents along the Mississippi Gulf Coast thought Walter Anderson was odd, rowing across twelve miles of open water in a leaky skiff to reach Horn, an uninhabited island without running water or electricity. But this solitary artist didn't much care what they thought as he spent weeks at a time on his personal paradise, sleeping under his boat, sometimes eating whatever washed ashore, sketching and painting the natural surroundings and the animals...
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, little people called Borrowers live out of sight of humans. But when brave and tiny Arrietty is out gathering supplies, she is discovered by Shawn, a human boy. They begin to form a friendship that blossoms into an extraordinary adventure.
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English
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“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Award-winning reporter Eamon Javers’s Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is a penetrating work of investigative and historical
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England, 1586. Treason threatens the very heart of the nation.
England is awash with traitors plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and bring about a foreign invasion.
Young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is coerced into becoming a code-breaker and agent in Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service at the behest of the Crown.
In the race to thwart the plot, who will triumph – the ruthless...
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English
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The new girl seems too good to be true. But, is she all she seems? Share in Rachel's secret life and go with her as her adventures take her around England.
The new girl seems too good to be true. But, is she all she seems? Share in Rachel's secret life and go with her as her adventures take her around England.
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Plant World is where 'Dream Children' of any age appear. Dream children, are children that humans mentally think of, or dream about. It could be a newly married couple, imagining what their future child will be like. Or, it could be a child dreaming of having a brother or sister, and imagining, what they will do together. It may also, be a child thinking of what they will be like, when they grow up.
Most Dream children arrive with a creative skill...
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The world's best spies cannot complete secret missions and do their jobs well without support from great spy agencies. So who do these spies work for? Many countries have spy agencies. Some of them have a mysterious history. Some of them have double agents working for other countries. Author Susan K. Mitchell uncovers the secrets of spy agencies from around the world.
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English
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Another great audiobook classic from the world's most prolific and prestigious new company, Icon Audio Arts. Presented by actor author Geoffrey Giuliano, here is an exciting 'listen while you learn' audio production which promises to entertain, enlighten and enliven the listener. Icon productions offer a daring, fresh perspective on the hundreds of perennial favorite tales which have inspired generations and imbued a deep love of literature and art...
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English
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Polly Flint was the kind of girl who was always "seeing" mysterious things. So it was hardly a surprise when she began to pick up odd echoes and reflections after she moved into her aunt's house. But it soon becomes clear that the inhabitants of a nether world were asking Polly for help... As soon as she arrives in Wellow, Polly Flint knows there is magic in the place. And she should know because she is an unusual girl who can see things others can't....
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do...
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English
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Delia's world is about to change in the most unexpected way! She is lonely after she and her parents move to the country and is in desperate need of a friend. It is when her parents take her on a trip to China that she connects with the most unlikely of friends - Mingli, a stuffed Asian elephant. Delia is having difficulties with nightmares and to her amazement; in a whirl of wind Mingli whisks her off to a whimsical place, where she gains the powers...
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I had never heard of the 'Plant World', until I met Uncle Twotrees, after a hurricane destroyed my garden center in Kent, EnglandPlant World exists in another dimension, where everyone, cares for all living things, including, animals, birds, insects, flowers, plants and trees.Plant people also, communicate with each other, using their minds. This was not the case many centuries ago, when plant people were like humans. They argued, and even fought...
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English
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Young readers discover the fascinating world of animals and insects that live underground in this beautifully illustrated children's book.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an animal that lives underground? Now you can find out! With each turn of the page, this engaging picture book reveals dozens of adorable illustrations, educational captions, vocabulary words, and more-all exploring the underground habitat of several kinds...
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English
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Why would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken...
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English
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Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler's security and domestic arrangements. The book focuses in particular on both the official and private life of Hitler during the latter part of the war, at the Wolfs Lair at Rastenburg, and Hitler's private residence at Berchtesgaden,...
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"Stirring action, appealing character growth, and shocking, vivid violence. . . . Series readers will be pleased with this return to the Secret World." -Publishers Weekly
In the late 1930s something fell from the sky and landed in an area of the Atlantic not yet known as the Bermuda Triangle. After that event, part of the world irrevocably changed . . . and the mysteries began. Something else would change as well-seemingly ordinary men and women...
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