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The beloved author of Terms of Endearment, Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry presents Sin Killer, the first installment of a major four-volume series. Set in the 1830s, Sin Killer traces the perilous voyage of the Berrybenders, a family of English aristocrats, as they make their way across the wild American continent. Listeners from all walks of life are sure to relish this masterpiece of the old West filled with a cast of unique characters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
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Liveright Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Riddle James Camperdown's hope for a relaxing summer in 1971 goes out the window when she discovers a horrific crime in a neighbor's barn. Terrified, she keeps what she has seen to herself, but as the summer wears on and events heat up, she struggles for the courage to tell what she saw before her family is destroyed.
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English
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“Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The...
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Eccentric young chemist, Emilie Selden, lives in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishments until an unexpected encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home, her work, and her father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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After several Origami Yoda-related incidences, Dwight is suspended for being a troublemaker and Yoda asks Tommy and Kellen to save Dwight by creating a case file that proves Dwight is an asset to Ralph McQuarrie Middle School.
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
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English
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Larry McMurtry has gained international fame for his eccentric characters and vivid settings. The Wandering Hill is part of a series as colorful as the American West. An eccentric family of English sportsmen have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As they spend the winter at a remote trading post, bizarre adventures and even stranger domestic affairs befall them.
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English
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Meet Wilma Porter, the plucky and kindhearted owner of the only bed and breakfast in Ebb, Nebraska. Wilma knows everybody in town and everybody is in a bit of trouble. No one more so than Calvin Millet, though. His wife has up and left him and their ailing daughter. His department store is close to bankruptcy. His house has been destroyed by a tornado. The folks of Ebb, including Wilma and her indomitable gang of friends, watch Calvin's fortunes wane...
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
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English
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This is the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Larry McMurtry's vast saga set in the 1830s American West. The Berrybenders, a family of wealthy English eccentrics, now have a growing brood of children. During the fourth year of their Western odyssey, each faces danger from Indian attacks, disease, and deprivation as they travel across the desert toward Santa Cruz.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
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