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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details about the decomposition and embalming processes (an adult corpse buried six feet deep without a coffin will usually take five to ten years...
4) Feed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Gregg Easterbrook, author of the wildly popular ESPN.com column Tuesday Morning Quarterback takes on football's place in American society.
Gridiron football is the king of sports, it's the biggest game in the strongest and richest country in the world. Of the twenty most-watched television broadcasts ever, both in the United States and internationally, all twenty were Super Bowls. In The King of Sports, Easterbrook tells the full story of how football...
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Because her mother is always on the move, sixteen-year-old Steph hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet, a social media site where users upload cat pictures and the admin is CheshireCat, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures. When a threat from Steph's past catches up to her and CheshireCat's existence is discovered, it's up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save them....
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old from Tony Earley's Jim the Boy returns. Now a teenager, Jim has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of World War II.
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and...
9) Zeitoun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggerss riveting nonfiction book, three years in the...
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Macmillan Audio
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
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