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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
"Cosa rara, tener a los tiernos diez ąos un motivo en la vida: hacer que tu padre regrese a casa luego de haberse fugado con la dentista del pueblo. Diez ąos, buena edad para ser valerosa, pero ¿c̤mo lograrlo? Pues bien, su nombre es Raymie y ha encontrado una forma. Ser̀ f̀cil, bueno... quiz̀. S̤lo debe ganar el concurso de Pequęa Sęorita Florida. Eso le dar̀ proyecci̤n. Ser̀ suficiente para que su padre vea la foto de su gloria en el...
2) Nightingale
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A war veteran is anticipating the arrival of an old friend and in the process starts to unravel.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. Unfamiliar with...
Publisher
BBC Earth MD Limited ; Reliance Prodco, LLC ; Evergreen MD
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest of the pack--a playful Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi--embarks on the biggest adventure of his life. As he tries to find his place in a spectacular world filled with fun-loving friends and a few dangerous foed, Patchi will discover the courage he needs to become the leader of the hers...and a hero for the ages."--Container.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Meet dinosaurs more real than anyone has ever seen and take off on a thrilling prehistoric adventure, where Patchi, an underdog dinosaur, triumphs against all odds to become a hero for the ages.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A lo largo de la historia, a las mujeres les hand dicho que la ciencia no es parar ellas porque no son suficientemente inteligentes, o porque sus cerebros simplemente no son capaces de ese tipo de estudio. En este libro, Chelsea Clinton nos presenta a varias mujeres científicas que no prestaron atención a los que les dijeron que no y optaron por utilizar su ingenio, sus hablidades y su persistencia para descubrir, inventar, crear y explicar."--
Introduces...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a flute's owner believes it to be in need of repair, a little girl blows out butterflies, an owl, two fish, a nightingale, green leaves, and a great bunch of goose feathers.
11) Le rossignol
Publisher
Virgin Classics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Russian
Description
Getting into his grandfather's pottery workshop at night, a little boy finds an unusually large vase. Fascinated, the child feels the still-warm material, which - whether by a miracle or the hand of a magician, who knows? - at once changes into a magnificent piece of Chinese porcelain. Presently, from behind the great blue-enamelled trees, there appears a fisherman in his sampan....That's how the story of The nightingale, told all in music, begins,...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
El consejo de un abogado a sus hijos mientras él defiende el verdadero ruiseñor de la novela clásica de Harper Lee --un hombre negro acusado de violar a una niña blanca. "A trav́es de los ojos de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la d́ecada de 1930. La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios,...
