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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything.
2) Sea prayer
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English
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Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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English
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"'Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood'--Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram--un-Islamic, forbidden--and girls rarely leave...
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Goddess girls. Main series volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In order to fit in at Mount Olympus Academy, new girl and forest-mountain nymph Echo copies the mannerisms of all the other students, but instead of ingratiating herself to her classmates, it only seems to grate on them.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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6) Holler
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Publisher
Daemon Records
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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English
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English
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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English
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
German Aaron has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea, but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with conflicting loyalties to her son and her lover. When Tristan disappears into the mountains, it's unclear who is in the most...
14) My own lightning
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My own lightning volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.