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Series:
Kairos files volume 1
Publisher:
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date:
©2024
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Description:
When the normally unseen sixth grader Hector discovers he can turn invisible, he learns that he is not the only invisible boy at his school and there are worse things than bullies lurking the halls.
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Series:
Children of the red king volume 3
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Description:
Charlie and his friends unite to rescue Ollie, a boy who was turned invisible and made to live in the attics at Bloor's Academy more than a year ago, but they are hindered by a mysterious new student who lives with Charlie's aunts.
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Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.
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Series:
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 9
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure:
450L
Language:
English
Description:
"Magic Club is supposed to be fun for Frankie Miller and his friends. But that pest, Ari Goodwyn is always ruining everyone's tricks. After a really embarrassing fail, Frankie wants revenge. When the legendary magician, Mystical Marvin, comes to town to perform his daring stunts, Frankie sees an opportunity to get even with Ari. There's only one problem: everything goes wrong. Can Frankie and his friends make things right? Or will the opportunity...
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Language:
English
Description:
One town, three boys: Zeke, a shy over-achiever, struggling with his family's Catholic expectations and the weight of his Sicilian heritage. Charlie, a hard-core rocker, who's not as tough as he looks. Hammer, a footy jock with big AFL dreams, and an even bigger ego. All three share a secret. Will revealing it make them or break them? By turns hilarious and harrowing, but ultimately hopeful, this gripping novel explores what it is grow up gay in rural...
Language:
English
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Description:
A classic science-fiction retelling of The Tempest. When Commander Adams and his crew set out in the year 2257 to investigate the disappearance of a human colony on the planet Altair-4, they are shocked to discover two survivors who have managed to evade the evil force that roams the planet.
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Description:
Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where-rather than reforming the children in their care-school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about 100 survivors. Thus far, forensic anthropologist...
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Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
c2008
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Description:
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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Publisher:
Steerforth Press/Truth to Power Books
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
"A gripping memoir from a BC Vancouver Sun journalist who was born to a West African mother, and then adopted as a small boy and raised by a white evangelical family. This is his searing account of being raised by fundamentalists. He grows up as a black kid who had his racial identity mocked and derided all the while being made to participate in the religious fervor of his mother's holy roller church. The religious brainwashing is of course dislocating...
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Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
630L
Language:
English
Description:
A superhero-inspired friendship adventure follows the efforts of a comic-book enthusiast's Lois Lane-style investigation into the identity of an invisible superhero who saves her dog from almost drowning.
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Roberto just stood there but she was the one looking ... her ... the prettiest girl he had ever seen. But his friend didn't even see her. Roberto went over to her as she called. She touched him and then they both vanished into thin air! It was the beginning of a nightmare. Based on a true story.
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Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2007
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
Description:
Two stories about ordinary children who suddenly develop magical powers, the first, an eight-year-old girl who uses her strength for good instead of for fun and the second, a boy whose invisibility helps him find his missing parents.
Author:
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Many people wonder why Jo starts a school for boys..even though Little Women mentions how much Jo loves boys many times. In Little Men, we can see how Jo and Friedrich wish that their boys grow to respect women, so could Jo starting a school for boys actually be a feminist act? There are lots of people who say that Friedrich forced Jo to start a school or Friedrich forced Jo to become a teacher. None of that happens in the novel. So have these people...