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1) The caveman
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 4
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so they turned on each other--pointing fingers at neighbors,...
Author
Series
Legends of Lotus Island volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Doing the New Year's break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon Island to stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. The New Year always brings food, parties, and the grand old tradition of making a wish. At first, Plum is dazzled by the big city. But under the glittering surface, many secrets lurk. Mysterious tremors that shake the ground are growing worse by the day. Nakhon's troubles give Plum a chance to fulfill...
6) The spaceman
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a large bird makes off with his ship, a tiny Spaceman is forced to venture out into this new world--planet Earth--on foot, coming to a pond where he meets a friendly, goofy, slobbery beast and wonders if he's found a new home"--
7) Barracoon
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is circa 400 A.D. and you are a young person living in ancient Greece. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia's formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can't let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what's needed to...
10) Dregs
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 1
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Chief Inspector William Wisting, an experienced policeman who is familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirteen traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged into six categories including The creation dog, The trickster dog, The enchanted dog, The guardian dog, The super dog, and the treasure dog.
Author
Series
The Misfits volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris "make the good and noble choice" (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences?"--
17) Thistlefoot
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Take a lively look at the biology of plants on Earth and their vast importance to our planet, with this wide-ranging exploration from an award-winning team."--Publisher's description.
"On land and in the seas, green plants make the oxygen and food that many living things--including us--need to survive. Covering the evolution of the first plants billions of years ago, the secret, microscopic workings of trees and leaves today, and the role of plants...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Why is this night different from all other nights? Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions near the start of the Seder. The answers are no less than the story of people bound in slavery, their suffering in a foreign land, and their ultimate liberation - the story of Passover. Here the Four Questions are presented in breathtaking luminous paintings by Ori...
20) My river
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Frogs, fish, a turtle, and other creatures who live in or around a river state their need for the river, making a plea for protecting this natural resource.
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