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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Christmas 1943 approaches, a preschool boy inadvertently makes 2 weighty discoveries. But when he and his mother spend the holiday in Minnesota with his cousin who is dying, a Christmas miracle restores both children's faith in the spirit of the season.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Among other things, Julia Gillian is highly skilled in the Art of Knowing -- about her quirky neighbors, her Minneapolis neighborhood, even the inscrutable "claw machine" in the back of the corner hardware store. Unfortunately, the one skill Julia Gillian doesn't have is knowing how the book she's reading is going to end; it doesn't seem as if it's going to have a happy ending, and that frightens her. But being afraid teaches her something new: that...
5) The Iliad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy. Includes historical note, code-breaking activity, and instructions for making invisible ink.
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