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41) Feats of Courage
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Heroes are all around us. They may be famous for their deeds, or they could be our friends and neighbors. What sets heroes apart from the crowd is courage. It takes courage to save a life, help others, or fight for what you believe in. How have heroes made an impact on your life? Space 8, a Hi-Lo nonfiction series for young adults, reads like an infinity of facts. This series is full of high-interest topics that grab readers from the first page. Each...
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Langston Hughes's "Harlem", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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OSNOVA ebooks offer the usual excellence in the formatting, arrangement, and navigation, which readers have come to expect from OSNOVA digital publications. Features of this version of the KJV Bible that has the same text as your paper copy: - Best navigation with the active table of contents and crosslink system and other navigation aids - The text of this electronic edition has been painstakingly verified to be true to the KJV paper editions (no...
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This traditional English Christmas carol was first published in 1780 and still delights children and families today. Each new verse builds upon the last, making this cumulative poem fun for young learners to chant along with, and count each of the twelve days of creative gifts given by "my true love." As each verse ends with "…and a partridge in a pear tree," children will become familiar with the words and easily remember this engaging poem.
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A fully updated and revised edition of a classic text on Jewish prayer.
The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions. Because Hasidic literature contains no systematic manual of contemplative prayer, the texts included in this volume have been culled from many sources. From the teachings of the Hasidic Masters-the Ba'al Shem Tov, the Maggid Dov Baer of Meidzyrzec, and their immediate...
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Los licuados son de los más populares brebajes que aparecen en muchos menús. De hecho, son tan populares que existe un suministro prácticamente ilimitado de recetas para diferentes tipos de licuados y la gente es capaz de disfrutarlos sin importar donde se encuentren, desde un restaurante predilecto hasta una feria. Han llegado a ser tan arraigados en la cultura, especialmente en los Estados Unidos, que pueden encontrarse, prácticamente, en cualquier...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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Connected Lives, a contemporary nonfiction series for teens, features the fascinating life stories of popular artists. Each book presents two singers in a similar musical genre who have lived extraordinary lives, exploring how their lives interconnect and how they are different. As similar as these artists may seem, their rise to fame may have been very different. Multiple musical genres are represented across the series, including pop, hip-hop, jazz,...
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Fun at the beach! Alex packs toys for a beach trip. Duck and Goose have try a new sport at the lake. Emma realizes that the wild animals should be free, no matter how small. Learn a safe and easy trick for examining sea creatures up close. Stories by Larry Dane Brimner, Dagmar Kost, Marianne Mitchell, and Les Ewen.
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If you are studying any type of science and need to know about the periodic table and all of its elements, you may benefit from a periodic table (advanced) study guide in order to help you organize and apply the information in a matter that makes sense. With so many different elements on the table to memorize, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of information. Having a study guide helps to break down the information for you so that it is easier...
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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Splash! Bert, Beth, and Grandpa make a splash in the pond. The Timbertoes have a fun time on a rainy day. Visit a waterpark with Tina, Kevin, and Aunt Dora. Pick a favorite marine animal with Camila's class at the aquarium. Stories by Valeri Gorbachev, Marianne Mitchell, and Rich Wallace.
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Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children--but not anymore. In Snow White, Blood Red, some of todays most acclaimed fantasy authors present stories that evoke the spirit of classic fairy tales, but that are decidedly for grown-ups. Here you will find magical tales of enchantment and delight, but also stories with a dark, sinister edge in which heroes and heroines are flawed and fallible, fairies and fey beings pursue their own wicked schemes,...
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Now in its third edition, Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history has an updated design and new content, particularly in the section covering most recent Christian history. The inviting full-color format includes many new images and updated maps, while maintaining many of the features that made the second edition a popular volume for the classroom.
Dowley has assembled a global cast of respected scholars to write the full story...
54) Polar Pals
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet some amazing animal friends in this nonfiction exploration of the icy arctic.
Learn fun facts about each animal as you enjoy the beautiful photographs taken by photographer James Roberts. Animals featured include:
• Arctic hare
• Arctic fox
• Polar bear
• Fur seal
• King penguin
• Gyrfalcon
• Ptarmigan
James has been a professional wilderness guide since 2006. While working in our planet's remote and beautiful regions,...
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Australian and arctic animals! Meet a scientist who studies wombats and another who studies arctic foxes. Enjoy a fun story about animals having a jumping competition and another about animals having a special grown-up birthday party. Stories by L.E. Carmichael, Ph.D., Douglas McInnis, Karen Steiner, and Highlights for Children.
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Audio narration brings the story to life in this enhanced eBook, while word-for-word highlighting text makes it easy for the reader to follow along.
Hulk's hanging out in WEB-Quarters! What could possibly go wrong?
Spidey invites Hulk to hangout in WEB-Quarters for the day, like any good friend would do. But it quickly turns into disaster. It turns out that Hulk in WEB-Quarters is worse than a bull in a china shop.
Spidey fans will delight in...
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Ariel, a daring mermaid princess, always dreamed of life on land. So when she disobeys her father and ventures to the surface, she rescues the human Prince Eric from drowning-and falls in love with him! The little mermaid gives her voice to the sea witch Ursula for the chance to become human. But there's a catch: unless Eric falls in love with Ariel in three days, Ariel will be Ursula's servant forever! Don't miss this enchanting retelling of one...
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Nine lectures from the 1971 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin, on music history, theory and composition, education, and performance.
Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and touching on all the major disciplines of musicology, the nine papers collected in this volume constitute a broad overview of the direction of music scholarship in the 1970s.
In "Tractatus Esthetico-Semioticus: Model of the Systems of Human Communication,"...
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Once upon a time . . .
These words are a magic incantation that opens doors to a fantastic realm that is home to fairy godmothers, wicked witches, beautiful princesses, princes charming (and not so charming), sleeping beauties, fearsome ogres, fearless giant-killers, beasts with love in their hearts, and ordinary young men with heroic spirits. These are the characters who bring fairy tales to life and who for centuries have made the stories...