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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 kit, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Samuel Adams to the students from Parkland, march through history with the heroic revolutionary protesters who changed America. These heroic protesters were not afraid to stand up for what they believed in. They are among the twenty change-makers in this book who used peaceful protests and brave actions to rewrite American history"--Jacket.
Nonfiction picture book briefly introduces twenty protesters, including Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 books (xxii, 324 pages : illustration ; 21 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
It is the Mountain of Light--the legendary 186-carat Kohinoor diamond and its facets--that reflects a sweeping story of love, adventure, conquest and betrayal. Its origins are the stuff of myth, but for centuries this spectacular gem changes hands from one ruler to another in India, Persia, and Afghanistan. In 1850, the ancient stone is sent halfway around the world where it will play a pivotal role in the intertwined destinies of a boy-king of India...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
20 books (199 pages ; 20 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom...
53748) Jazz on a Saturday night
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Learn about this popular music form and hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD.
53749) Book Club Discussion Kit: Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (308, 12 pages ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
8 books (462, 14 pages : map ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic....
Publisher
Buffalo Games, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020?]
Physical Desc
1 game (200 cards, 30 second timer) : color illustrations ; in box 19 x 10 x 7 cm + 1 booklet (folded to 6 unnumbered pages : 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Play over 400 pop culture questions crammed with pictures, trivia and various game challenges. If a player answers a question correctly they score 1 point for their team. The first team to score 7 points is the winner."--Publisher's website.
53759) Galileo
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Letterboxed [1.85:1] ; Enhanced for 16x9.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
3 books, 1 busy book, 1 CD, 5 cars ; in pastic bag 34 x 44 cm.
Language
English
Description
Going places. It's time for this year's Going Places contest! Finally. Time to build a go-cart, race it, and win. Each kid grabs an identical kit and scrambles to build. Everyone but Maya. She sure doesn't seem to be in a hurry, and that sure doesn't look like anybody else's go-cart! But who said it had to be a go-cart? And who said there's only one way to cross the finish line?
John Deere, that's who! Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith...