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I survived volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled like they'd been sprinkled with diamonds. True, this...
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2019
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After surviving the bloodiest war in U.S. history, will it be peacetime that finally kills him?
Henry Remington awakes from a six-month coma with a Medal of Honor pinned to his pillow, but no recollection of how he got there. When three fellow soldiers insist he saved them and want to repay the favor, Hank accepts their offer of a partnership on a Texas ranch and embarks on a ship bound for Galveston.
Fates seems determined to put him in an early...
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2022.
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Imagining a life elsewhere, undefined by her family’s history, Carly Castillo, in a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families in Galveston, Texas, finds everything changed by the arrival of Hurricane Ike, which forces each resident to decide whether to hunker down or abandon their hard-won homes.
Welcome to Galveston, Texas. Population 50,241.
A popular tourist destination and major shipping port, Galveston attracts millions...
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