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"Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond." - People
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly...
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They are the legal world's oddest couple: a shorts-and-sandals beach bum and a Coral Gables blue blood. The only thing keeping them together is that they're on the same side. Why does an ex-client want to kill Steve Solomon? Who doesn't want to kill a lawyer? Still, a 300-pound marlin stuck in your front door is a weird death threat, even by south Florida standards. How can Steve Solomon explain to his partner why an ex-client wants him dead? When...
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Grace Trey is an eighteen-year-old singer as passionate about her Christian faith as she is her phenomenal music talent. Both traits come from her father, one-hit wonder Jonny Trey, who found a new life in Jesus after losing his chart success. When she encounters her own music break of a lifetime, the sudden dive into the "real world" puts her deeper beliefs to the test.
6) Plunked
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
7) Hook
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
8) Clorinda
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Defying the odds, Clorinda the cow follows her dream of becoming a ballet dancer.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Timothy Cox, who is good at following through on ideas, decides to wear the same unwashed socks for one month, ignoring the objections of his dachsund, Walt, and everyone else around him.
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.
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During World War I, the influenza pandemic ultimately killed more people around the world than the war itself. The Last Town on Earth takes as its launching point a striking historical footnote: some uninfected towns were so terrified of the surrounding flu that they closed their entrances, posted signs warning strangers not to enter, and even stationed armed guards to make sure no outsiders brought infection into their communities. Mullen incisively...
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Sylvan Dell Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Octavia the octopus can shoot every color of ink cloud except the usual purple one. She practices knowing that she needs the purple one to camouflage from predators. Will she be able to shoot her purple cloud when it counts? Includes activities: for
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Clorinda the cow books volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Using determination and vision, Clorinda the cow and her friend Hop the pig build a variety of flying machines, hoping to fulfill her desire to take flight.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about
19) Frog wars
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Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Junior Asparagus will not stick to one instrument long enough to learn to play it, until a strange book transports him to a place where the people of Salon are held as slaves, but hope in God and the hero he sent to free them.
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Questioneers volume 3
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
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