Jenn Bennett
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Biddy Mason's life began as an enslaved person. She had to walk 2000 miles to reach California, but once there, she gained her freedom. She became a successful nurse, midwife, and land owner, and left behind a legacy of caring and charity. This primary source reader integrates literacy and social studies content knowledge, and uses maps, letters, images, and photographs to engage students and develop their curiosity about the people and the world...
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Astrid Magnusson, une jeune étudiante hardie et fougueuse, rentre à la maison pour les Fêtes de n d'année, habitée par le désir ardent d'obtenir la seule chose qui a toujours été hors limite: Bo Yeung, le commandant en second de son frère, un célèbre contrebandier. Malheureusement, son rêve de belles retrouvailles tombe en miettes au cours d'une violente tempête, lorsqu'un yacht se fracasse contre les quais des Magnusson. Pire, encore,...
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Ce sont les Années folles, et San Francisco est le nid d'accueil du commerce de l'alcool illégal, de la lubricité et de la magie noire. La région de la baie couverte de brume peut se révéler être une scène enivrante, particulièrement si les esprits constituent votre spécialité... Aida Palmer donne un spectacle de médium spirite sur la scène du Gris-Gris, l'illustre bar clandestin du quartier chinois de San Francisco. Toutefois, sa capacité...
4) Grim Shadows
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Archaeologist Lowe Magnusson is packing something everyone wants. The djed amulet, a priceless Egyptian artifact, will fetch Lowe a hefty paycheck from one of San Francisco's wealthiest. But when the handsome Swede runs into his patron's uptight daughter, what he once considered easy money becomes maddeningly complicated. Cursed with deadly spirits as her constant companions, curator Hadley Bacall must keep calm to hold her dangerous specters at bay...
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Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown's illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act. Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who's more comfortable with guns than ghosts. Unfortunately for him, he's the recent target of a malevolent hex that renders him a magnet for hauntings. After Aida's supernatural assistance is enlisted to banish the ghosts, her spirit-chilled...
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Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she's cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel.
In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to...
7) Starry Eyes
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Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. It doesn't hurt that their families are the modern day, Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets. But when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together. What could go wrong? With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice...
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Classic movie buff Bailey "Mink" Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by "Alex." Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush. Faced with doubts (what if he's a creep in real life-or worse?), Bailey doesn't tell Alex she's moved to his hometown. Or that she's landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she's being...
10) Chasing Lucky
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Simon Pulse
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Returning to her historical New England hometown to help run the family bookstore, a budding photographer reconnects with the local bad boy, her former childhood best friend, during a poorly executed act of revenge that lands the wrong person in trouble.
11) Starry eyes
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Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
12) Grumbones
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Budding sleuths Helena and her best friend Ben hire an insufferable ghostly guide named Grumbones to track down her recently deceased grandmother in the underworld.