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Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness. Meet Ed Kennedy, underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring. The working class family of Cameron Wolfe and his brother Ruben isn't having much luck these days. Their dad has just lost his job and is too proud to go on welfare. Their older brother has moved out of the house in disgust. Which leaves them open to suggestion...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs--Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
11 books, 1 unabridged audiobook (11 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) in a cloth bag ; 42 x 50 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, one large print copy, one audiobook that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
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...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Large print, [Wonderbooks], [Unabridged].
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (757 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist, books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
