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Lewis Grizzard got his first newspaper job when he was ten years old. Thirty-odd years later (thirty-very-odd years) he's still in the newspaper business—and he's still infuriated by it, still tickled by it, and still very much in love with it. If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground is all about that anger, that great humor and that even greater passion for something that affects every single one of us: the...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1968
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English
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An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
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Walt Fleming novels volume 4
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English
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Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue. Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou Boldt, a police sergeant from Seattle, calls to report that a recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. Walt knows there's a link-but can he pull the pieces together in time?
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2021.
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English
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"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp--manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"--
In 2012, an Oregon mother opened up a package of Halloween decorations, and something shocking fell out: an SOS letter, handwritten in broken English. "Sir: If you...
6) Killer view
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A dead search-and-rescue team member and unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as a Sun Valley sheriff follows threads of questionable evidence to expose a domestic terrorist attack
7) The sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the nature of the sun, its origin, source of energy, layers, atmosphere, sunspots, and activity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Genie Lo is one among droves of Ivy-hopeful overachievers in her sleepy Bay Area suburb. You know, the type who wins. When she's not crushing it at volleyball or hitting the books, Genie is typically working on how to crack the elusive Harvard entry code. But when her hometown comes under siege from hellspawn straight out of Chinese folklore, her priorities are dramatically rearranged. Enter Quentin Sun, a mysterious new kid in class who becomes Genie's...
10) Killer summer
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Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in this high-intensity thriller as he thwarts a plan to steal a rare wine at the annual wine auction. When a bomb detonates just as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well, pulling Walt in a dozen different directions
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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One dawn the Moon hears the laughter of children waking up and she yearns to see them, but the day belongs to the Sun and he will not trade places; so the Moon tempts him with stories of the stars and two come up with a compromise that explains why the moon can sometimes be seen in the daytime.
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Our universe volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star--he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Sun in this next celestial "autobiography." Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully illustrated, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years."--Amazon.com.
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Forge
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English
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"Mountain man Barnaby Skye is on the run in the 1826 Columbia River wilderness. Hired mercenaries, the British military, and some of the most brutal warriors in all the American Northwest are on Barnaby's trail. He and his fellow fur trappers are locked in the most violent struggle of their lives, surrounded on all sides by bloody killers who take no prisoners and who are hell-bent to destroy them, particularly the young mountain man Barnaby Skye....
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The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, enabling life to exist on our planet. But human beings are interfering in this natural cycle, unbalancing the amount of fresh water available."--
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Big deal volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Did you know that the Sun never stops working to keep things here on Earth running smoothly? (That's why it's been Employee of the Month for 4.5 billion years and counting.) Learn about the Sun's big job, from giving Earth day and night to keeping us warm, and much more.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When her radio host mother finds the dead body of the station's programming director, it is up to Sophie Kimball to solve this crime that is linked to the past when fingerprints are found on the murder weapon belonging to a woman who passed away years ago.
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