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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The photos in this book, selected from the submissions of more than five hundred photographers, young and old, amateur and professional, give a permanent voice to those who made the September 11 Photo Project what is is: an attempt to build a new understanding from the ashes of what has been.
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Pub. Date
2009
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When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier is happy to take in her sixteen-year-old niece Tally. Practically an orphan, Tally is motherless and her father raises Tally in a haphazard manner--often taking off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a "normal" life. What she doesn't know is that their own storybook lives are about to fall apart. Seventeen-year-old...
3) Dough boys
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book. Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When one of the other members of Benton Bluff Junior High band shows up with a shiny new trombone, Kori Neal's school-loaner suddenly seems beat-up and old so she comes up with an idea to organize a fund-raiser to buy new instruments--until advice from a famous local jazz musician gives her a clearer perspective on the issue.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alexa and the other children at her rural school in Costa Rica have a special project: they are raising American Crocodiles and returning them to the wild. End notes discuss the physical characteristics and conservation of crocodiles.
11) Summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Description
Provides a variety of projects and activities based on the theme of summer.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Should scientific discoveries belong to everyone? Or should they be the private property of the scientists? What if the discovery is something fundamental to all humanity and the crown jewel of twentieth-century biology? This book relates the effort to sequence the human genome and the fierce rivalry between the government-funded Human Genome Project and privately backed research led by scientist Craig Venter. The story is interspersed with interesting...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Artist Jan Bode Smiley seamlessly blends fabulous fabrics with altered books for cutting-edge designs every quilter, paper crafter, and scrapbooker will want to try. This guide teaches crafters how to use fabric as a natural addition to scrapbook and altered book projects, and for books made entirely of fabric and embellishments. These are creative, doable projects that use paper, fabric, thread, findings, buttons, and more in a variety of book styles....
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Pub. Date
2004.
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"Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly educated family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"It moves, it lights up, and you can wear it! This book contains projects for clothing and accessories that you can make by creating simple circuits. Learn about what a circuit is by creating your own. Each project contains a list of easy-to-find supplies and step-by-step instructions"--
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Series
Absolutely Alfie volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During her first week of second grade, Alfie plans to introduce her old best friend Lulu to her new best friend Hanni, creating her ideal trio of friends, but when a group project fails, Alfie learns that mistakes happen, plans change, and friendship can be found in unexpected places.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Artwork that moves and glows and turns on and off. Make one for yourself and one to give as a gift. The possibilities are endless when you're making artwork with circuits. Learn about what a circuit is by creating your own. Each project contains a list of easy-to-find supplies and step-by-step instructions"--
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