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2. Coco
Publisher:
Disney / Pixar
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
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Series:
Hilo volume 8
Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
©2022
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 190L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The earth has been remade and magical creatures are everywhere-now Gina, DJ, and Hilo have to find the key to turn the world back to what it was"--
"The world's timeline has been turned upside down! Now magical creatures are everywhere, and DJ's family is nowhere to be found. Gina has to fix things--FAST! But magic is banned on this new earth. Can she keep hers a secret? And together, can DJ, Gina, and Hilo find the key to fixing the earth before...
4. Like crazy
Language:
English
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Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is fragile. When a British college student falls for her American classmate, they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated by circumstances beyond their control. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart.
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Language:
English
Description:
In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy's sister, Georgiana, are favorable. And preparations for their annual autumn ball are proceeding apace. But on the eve of the ball, chaos descends. Lydia Wickham, Elizabeth's disgraced...
6. Heat
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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Language:
English
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One of the major works of fiction written during the twentieth century, D. H. Lawrence's last novel is an erotic celebration of life. Described by the New York Times as "our time's most significant romance," the controversial book was banned, burned, and the subject of a landmark obscenity trial. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not published in Great Britain until 1960, after having long scandalized society with its sexually explicit...
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Series:
Upside-down magic volume 6
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Description:
Marigold Ramos thinks that her magical ability to make things small will come in handy as she and her friends protest the new rule banning their toy dragons from school, until her magic gets out of control and starts shrinking her friends.
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Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Description:
The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called "a transporting, enlightening book" tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson,...
11. The prettiest
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Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
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Description:
When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
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Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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This novel brings up the question, What are women for? In the near future abortion is illegal once again, In vitro ferilization is banned. The Personhood Amendment grants right to life, libertry and property to every embryo. In a small town in Oregon we meet five differant woman and how they navigate these new barriers along side age old questions surrounding motherhood, identity and freedom.
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Publisher:
IDW Publishing
Language:
English
Description:
Enter Lao Ban. Discover the origin of Nightwatcher's foe who has been controlling Mutant Town. How did an injured bear who lived in the zoo become a mutant kingpin following the events of the great M-bomb drop? How has he assembled every piece of information about Jennika's life before and after she became NIghtwatcher? Nightwatcher's greatest fight begins now. It's life or death, and if things go Lao Ban's way, neither of them may make it out of...
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Publisher:
Twenty-First Century Books
Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
Description:
Decades of commercial whaling nearly decimated a variety of whales considered a keystone species. Keystone species are indicators of the overall health of Earth's habitats. While whales have made a comeback through an international ban on commercial whaling, they are still threatened with extinction. Global warming, water and noise pollution, and commercial shipping and fishing are among the most serious threats to whale survival. Meet the scientists,...
15. The batboy
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop--once the most popular player...
16. Our cursed love
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Julie Abe's "Our Cursed Love" is set in Tokyo, Japan-about destiny, the impact of the choices we make, and the magic of true love. Six days to remember. Love or lose him forever. Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their "just friends" homecoming date during their senior year in high school, nothing's a secret...
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"From one of the foremost writers in the Arab world comes a new novel banned in his home country, Egypt--a devastating work of fiction about the Egyptian revolution, taking us inside the battle raging between those in power and those prepared to lay down their lives in the defense of freedom"--
Cairo, 2011. Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy, and the oppressive military. General Alwany is a pious...
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Language:
English
Description:
"It's no exaggeration to say that Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry. Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Rimbaud to T.S. Eliot to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, with Georges Dillon, brought out an inspired rhymed version of the book in1936. Here it is reprinted, with the French originals, for the first time in many years. Millay and Dillon's versions are virtuosic in their handling of rhyme and meter, and their take on the Flowers...
19. Anthem
Author:
Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
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Description:
"In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys." --