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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
What does everyone in the modern world need to know?
Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must...
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Shadow children volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Gr 5-9-Haddix continues her science fiction dystopian tale about illegal third children in this sequel to Among the Hidden (1998) and Among the Imposters (2001, both S & S). Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police for being an illegal child. She is given the opportunity to save herself by spying on the other three children who are in the jail cell with her. Nina finds herself both drawn to them and fearful for her own life. When she has a chance...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.
8) Eragon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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In Alagað̀ưsia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
9) Unplugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
10) Among the free
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Shadow children volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Luke Garner is a third-born in a restricitve society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police Laws. Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped for? When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion...
11) The archer
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A young man seeks wisdom from a retired archer who explains how the principles of archery can help readers find the courage to take risks and embrace life's unexpected turns.
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A Bantam book volume N3623
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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From the Publisher: From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist...
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2022.
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"In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it. To master anything, one must first master themselves-one's emotions, one's thoughts, one's actions. Eisenhower famously said that freedom is really the opportunity to practice...
14) Pig the tourist
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Pig the pug volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Told in rhyming text, Pig the pug spreads destruction wherever he travels, creating complete chaos wrecking parties and parades until finally the locals unite to tell him to go away--but Pig never really learns his lesson and remains a bad traveling companion to this day.
16) True Blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Junie B. is having a run of bad luck, losing every game at the school carnival. When she finally wins the Cake Walk on her last ticket, she chooses a fruitcake as her prize. But who in the heck knew that sparkly foil-wrapped fruitcake was really a lethal weapon in disguise?
18) Pig the winner
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Pig the pug volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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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.