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81) Travel team
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
82) A different pond
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Series
Space taxi volume 1
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On "Take Your Kid to Work Day," eight-year-old Archie discovers that his father drives a space taxi that shuttles aliens from one area of the universe to another.
88) Accelerated
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A single father and his son discover what lies beneath the gilded facade of a tony Upper East Side private school"--Dust jacket.
89) Giving thanks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
90) Into the forest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After his father seems to disappear, a boy takes a cake to his ill grandmother, traveling through the forest in a journey reminiscent of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
91) Grizzly dad
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One morning Dad wakes up in such a bad mood that he turns into a bear, but his son still enjoys spending time with him and the two spend the day doing all the fun things dads and kids enjoy.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When 15-year-old Wulliam's father is possessed by a dark spirit, Wull must care for him and take on his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the Danek. Wull finds out there is a cure for his father's illness, and embarks on an epic journey to kill the great sea-dwelling beast known as the mormorach.--
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Series
Language
English
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Description
With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom. For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has...
97) The birdcage
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this hysterical comedy, Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman)...and they're all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time?...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
99) The other wife
Author
Series
Joseph O'Loughlin volume 9
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"William and Mary live in Wales and have been married sixty years with four children and five grandchildren. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both are strong believers in right and wrong. William and Olivia have been together twenty years and share a house in London, enjoying the theatre and restaurants and playing tennis every week. Only one of these stories can be true - but which one? This is the question that confronts clinical...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
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