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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Incredible series tells engaging, exciting, and touching recent and historical stories about people and animals doing brave, daring, and surprising things. This is a high-interest page-turner book about mysterious happenings that will keep readers engaged.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
In this third book in the exceptional Curiosity House mystery series by bestselling author Lauren Oliver and mysterious recluse H. C. Chester, four children must uncover the evil Nicholas Rattigan’s newest dastardly scheme, wage war with a rival freak show, and deal with a spy who may have infiltrated their happy home.
47) Lost in Babylon
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Series
Seven wonders volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Journeying to the ancient city of Babylon when Bhegad tracks down Marco, the companions face a daunting choice involving a dire trap and a long-lost figure from Jack's past.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"3... 2... 1... We have lift off on another fully revised and updated Guinness World Records annual. The 2023 edition takes readers on a journey that's out of this world, revealing the latest and greatest record-breaking achievements here on Planet Earth and across the vast distances of space."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.
51) Flight Behavior
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Description
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Bright illustrations, wacky lists, nerd words, and colorful layouts enhance this fun-filled reference guide to facts and figures on an assortment of interesting animals, people, places, and things, including what makes pink flamingos pink and the most expensive movie flops ever made.
Author
Series
Ripley's believe it or not annual volume 12
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An encyclopedia of oddities features unexpected and unimaginable people, places, and creatures from around the world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title will introduce eight unique and shocking animals! Each spread devotes itself to one animal, an interesting fact about them, and a beautiful, full-bleed photograph. These titles will definitely attract those reluctant readers. Complete with a table of contents, glossary, index, and even more facts! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
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"It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-- the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India....