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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The candid autobiography of all-star pitcher "Sudden Sam" McDowell, whose alcohol-fueled life quickly and famously spiraled out of control, and his ultimate redemption as a counselor for other athletes suffering from addiction"--
McDowell boasted one of the fastest arms in major league baseball. Here he holds nothing back, sharing the pressures and frustrations he felt as a baseball phenom in the early 1970s, and his time playing in an alcoholic...
19242) Homecoming
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Eleven-year-old Joel Gustafsson and his father live in the isolated forests of northern Sweden. Luckily, Joel finds companionship in a mysterious Norwegian elkhound wandering the streets, and together they discover a whole different side of town.
Author
Series
March comes in like a lion volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in Tokyo's uptown. Unfortunately, the young man lost his family at a young age, sending his life into a deep world of solitude. This is a heartfelt tale of how he recovers his life upon coming into contact with the Kawamoto sisters--Akari, Hinata, and Momo" --Cover page [4].
19244) La leccion de August
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Su cara lo hace distinto y el solo quiere ser uno mas. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha y el flequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun asi, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados y codazos de asombro. August sale poco, su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, entre la compania de su familia, su perra Daisy y las increibles historias de "La guerra de las Galaxias."Este ano todo va a cambiar,...
19245) Witchcraft works: 8
Author
Series
Witchcraft works volume 8
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A quick trip to the Kagari estate reveals many secrets of Ayaka and Honoka's past. But even after discovering all this, what use is this information to them? And why does it seem as if all things point to Honoka's mother and her mysterious scar?
19247) Kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
A journey through the inbetween places of the British landscape to the bleak coast, 'Kingdom' follows a family on their holiday to a small caravan park, where teenager Andrew explores the dunes, and half-remembered stories from the past are shared.0Once again, Jon McNaught creates a beautiful graphic novel that makes the ordinary, extraordinary.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Edgar and Allan Poe, great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who is determined to kill one of them in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? Can the twins, with the help of their co-stars,...
19250) Rogue (#3): Croak series
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
19251) Seekers: Toklo's story
Author
Series
Seekers manga (Erin Hunter) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Toklo, his little brother Tobi, and their family are forced to leave the only home they have ever known as a terrifying grizzly tries to take over the forest.
19253) Rizos
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Marlene ama tres cosas: el arte, a su adorada tía Ruby y pasar el tiempo con Camilla, su mejor amiga. Pero su mamá piensa que se debería enfocar solamente en sus estudios y en madurar; y esto último implica alisarse el pelo todos los fines de semana para que se vea “presentable” y “bueno”. Pero Marlene odia ir al salón y no entiende por qué nadie a su alrededor piensa que sus rizos naturales son bonitos. Después de algunos desafíos...
19254) Centaur rising
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
19255) Kampung boy
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
19257) A map to the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A gripping YA graphic novel about five principle players in a struggling girls' basketball team. During their first season, this diverse and endearing group of teens are challenged in ways that make them reevaluate just who and how they trust."--Provided by publisher.
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