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1) The pearl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the...
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gruntly is a real hog, and the other animals are tired of his greediness, but when he gets mixed up on a treasure hunt and is the last to reach the prize, Gruntly begins to realize the value of kindness and sharing.
Author
Series
Pig the pug volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Pig is a greedy pug, who insists on always winning, and throws a tantrum if anything thwarts him--until one day he swallows not only all his food, but his bowl as well and when his friend Trevor saves him he learns a valuable lesson on sharing.
9) The amateurs
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Alex is failing as a father. Ian keeps dangerous secrets. Jenn is pining for adventure; Mitch is pining for Jenn. Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get better. But as their twenties fade in the rearview mirror, none of them are turning out to be who or where they hoped. In a time when CEOs steal millions while their employees watch savings dwindle, these four are tired of the honest approach....
10) Full ratchet
Author
Series
Silas Cade novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Series
On the seventh day trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia....
Author
Series
Deravenel family trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When several family members are killed in a fire, Edward Deravenel and his cousin become suspicious.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 139
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
17) Serena: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
18) Vicious circle
Author
Series
Hector Cross novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The master of action-adventure returns with the follow-up to his New York Times bestselling novel Those in Peril starring Hector Cross Wilbur Smith has won fans the world over for his heart-racing novels that span continents and centuries. For nearly fifty years, his books have hit bestseller lists in the United States --and everywhere else -- and sold millions of copies. As a writer of action-adventure and the African continent, Smith is without...
20) Little century
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range in a story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America.
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