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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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English
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Winner of the PARENTS MAGAZINE GOLD MEDAL My Side Of The Mountain, based on the book by Jean George, is the unique adventure of thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley. Sam's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau, so Sam writes a note to his folks, packs up and leaves home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature - miles from civilization.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Two years ago, Sam ran away from New York City to live in the Catskill Mountains. Now his younger sister Alice has joined him and is quietly living in a tree house of her own nearby. Their peaceful life is shattered when a conservation officer confiscates Sam's falcon, Frightful, and Alice suddenly vanishes. Sam leaves his home to search for Alice, hoping to find Frightful, too. But the trail to the far side of the mountain may lead Sam into great...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.
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English
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A young woman struggling to recognize her value in life finds herself in a world of mental, physical, and spiritual purgatory, literal hell. She is being pursued by an enemy who has been hiding her entire life and has access to every corner of her heart and mind.
She will be faced with the choice humanity has grappled with since their dawn; to give up and perish or press on in the face of the fire. She embarks on a mystical journey to conquer…Over...
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The journals of Thomas Merton volume 7
Language
English
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With the election of a new Abbot at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton enters a period of unprecedented freedom, culminating in the opportunity to travel to California, Alaska, and finally the Far East – journeys that offer him new possibilities and causes for contemplation. In his last days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton continues to follow the tumultuous events of the sixties, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert...
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English
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In this book you will learn about a woman who experienced such things
for years. The lessons she learned will help and encourage you.
My Side of the Story is Lacy Stern's true story of her challenging and
awakening journey from 1955 to 2018 as she stood with her son, Sam, on
the side of minority children in a harsh community. Her trauma began in
childhood, which led her to search for truth and freedom of heart and
mind as she grew into adulthood.
As...
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English
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Hearts break, but true love never dies.Jack has a choice: follow the only path he has ever known, the one created by his abusive and alcoholic father before him, or step off it and make something of his life. In a seemingly other world, and with her parents leading lives too busy to care for anyone but themselves, Lucy grows up with a feeling of neglect. She sets off, leaving behind the small town she knew, and the young man she secretly loved, to...
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English
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Cleo Dunnit is a forensic psychiatric nurse in a maximum-security prison for males in New York State. The book is a combination of Cleo's own opinions and her perspective as a nurse. It reveals the criminal mind at work in all its manipulations, selfishness, and lack of remorse. It reveals how the manipulative behavior of the inmates is, condoned versus being, corrected. It reveals the bureaucratic incompetence of the state system.
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By turns tender, gritty, and poignant, Gary Reed's tale of love in a time of war follows him from the quiet security of a mountain village in the Southwest, through the destruction and carnage he witnesses onboard an aircraft carrier operating off Vietnam, and as he returns to the mountains he loves, where he hopes to recover from his traumatic experiences and restore meaning to his life by reuniting with Kristina Preston, his high school sweetheart....
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English
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Readers will recall the characters they loved or hated in Unintended Lies and Accidental Lives as they journey through more twists and stunning surprises in this third in a series of gripping novels by Linda Kendall McLendon. Previously, Catherine DeLong had tried to piece her life back together after her husband, James, was killed in a tragic car accident. After buying a farm in Florida, and immersing herself with animals to love and care for, Catherine's...