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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fending for herself in the wake of a chronically unemployed, dysfunctional mother, ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow experiences feelings of confinement in their small Midwestern town and suffers the heartache of a first love.
Series
Advances in creativity and giftedness volume Volume 10
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The emotional story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
91) The identities and practices of high-achieving pupils: negotiating achievement and peer cultures
Author
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
96) Paths & portals
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 430L
Language
English
Description
Volume 2 in the mind-bending new series from Gene Luen Yang! There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy -- literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why...
98) Secret coders
Author
Series
Secret coders volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 380L
Language
English
Description
"The mind-bending new series from Gene Luen Yang! Welcome to Stately Academy. Hopper hates her new school. The kids are mean, the principal is scary, and there's something creepy about the building itself. For instance: why are the walls of Stately Academy covered in the number 9? Hopper and her friend Eni are determined to get to the bottom of it. But the mystery of Stately Academy has been programmed into its very stones, and it'll take two persistent...
99) Inspection
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. And neither knows the other exists--until now. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a tantalizing world of secrets and lies. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students...