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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...
4) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Jones starts working for a florist, she realizes her talent with flowers helps her change the lives of the people who buy her creations. But when she must confront her painful past, she has to decide how much she is willing to change.
8) Eragon
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español
Description
LNo te pierdas la nueva y pica fantasa de Christopher Paolini-Eragon, prximamente 12.5.23! Un joven. Un dragn. Un mundo de aventuras. Eragon es el primer ttulo de la serie de Ciclo Inheritance, que tiene como protagonista a un valiente joven y a su indomable dragona Shapira. En el reino legendario de Alagasia la guerra se est gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los nicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes dragones, se han...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling. And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour...
12) The art of X-ray reading: how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, fromThe Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest...
Author
Publisher
Selector
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Invertimos mucho tiempo, dinero y esfuerzo para capacitarnos en conocimientos racionales y materiales, pero nos olvidamos de conocer y comprender nuestra naturaleza emocional y espiritual. Ignoramos la necesidad primordial de saber quiénes somos, desde antes de nuestra concepción y hasta después de nuestra transición del mundo material, pasando por la herencia genética, religiosa, cultural y social, sin analizar ni comprender nuestros pensamientos,...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right -- in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese, and Arı in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
18) Eldest
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
Español
Description
Eragon y su dragona, Saphira, tienen que viajar al pais de los elfos, para continuar con su formacion en la magia y en la lucha con la espada para poder enfrentarse al Malvado rey Galbatoriz.
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon and his dragon Saphira are adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training in magic and sword fighting so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
19) Of human bondage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
This semi-autobiographical novel explores obsession. After failing as an artist in France, sensitive Philip Carey returns to England to go to medical school. It is there that he falls in love with a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
20) Women in love
Author
Series
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
One of Lawrence's most popular novels, this fascinating and disturbing sequel to The Rainbow depicts the emotional life of the Brangwen sisters. Set just after World War I, this prophetic masterpiece is filled with perceptions about sexual powers and sexual obsession now held to be timeless and true.