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A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation.
In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Canadian Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail - a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time when the Shah...
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Captain Underpants volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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George and Harold are forced to contemplate a world without Captain Underpants.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and John Green. When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he's falling-hard. Soon she's meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic treehouse whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
6) Caught
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The missing volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Time Castaways volume 2
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
In order to travel through time and rescue their friend Jia from the villainous Captain Vincent, Mateo, Ruby, and Corey enlist the help of their wacky neighbor, his rusty van, and historic marks woman Annie Oakley.
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Series
Time Castaways volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Matt, Ruby, and Corey Hudson discover their subway train is actually a time-traveling eighteenth-century frigate captained by a mysterious pirate, they are thrown into a series of adventures that offer cryptic clues about their past and their future.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson"-- Publisher.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Jack and Annie are on a mission to find—and inspire—a musician that brings happiness to millions of people. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong.
Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House...
Jack and Annie are on a mission to find—and inspire—a musician that brings happiness to millions of people. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong.
Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House...
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history. -- Provided by publisher.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Join Jack and Annie as they as they meet one of the world's most famous illusionists - Harry Houdini!"-- Publisher.
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How I became a ghost volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Ten-year-old ghost Isaac is following his Choctaw people as they relocate to Indian Territory, but when he discovers that he can time travel, he heads back to 1824 to Washington DC where Choctaw Chief Pushmataha was betrayed by Andrew Jackson.
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English
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An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture-loving...
15) The starspun web
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Publisher
Borzoi book Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Tess de Sousa leaves Miss Ackerbee's orphanage to live with her new guardian in Roedeer Lodge, taking with her a fondness for scientific experimentation, a pet tarantula named Violet, and a device that allows her to travel to parallel universes.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
17) Winterwood
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Rumored to be a witch, Nora Walker attempts to uncover the truth about a boy she discovers in the woods who went missing weeks ago during a brutal winter storm, only to learn that he wasn't the only one to go missing all those weeks ago"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Publisher
a Stepping Stone book, Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves. -- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Publisher
A Stepping Stone book, Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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