Mo
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In a house near a beautiful forest, a new prince is born, living close to the mansion of his grandfather, the King. The prince moves to the city as a very young child, and there he learns how to use magic and how to play many different games. When he returned to the mansion that he had visited as a baby, he soon realizes something wonderful: his crayons have magically become rainbows! Using magic, he sets out to make the world a perfect place.
In...
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Enjoy hours of smiles and laughter with Carnival Communications, which is composed of more than one hundred short stories created solely for the purpose of entertainment, designed to deliver the biggest bang for your buck. Contained within the pages of this book are tales from circuses, courtrooms, crime scenes, and countless other scenarios. Characters in this book include gangsters, aliens, police, talking animals, knights in shining armor, and...
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While others take pride in acquiring a single mythical beast, Jiang Chen is already nurturing his thousandth spirit beast.While others are racking their brains and risking their lives to obtain a single spirit beast, Jiang Chen is planning to transform ten thousand battle beasts into immortal beasts.While others are tragically killed by a single immortal beast, Jiang Chen leads his army of immortal beasts, flattening entire clans of such creatures.While...
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2019.
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English
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"Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries -- reading about the remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry, innovators and artists. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. With Mobituaries -- the book companion to the CBS podcast of the same name -- the journalist, humorist, and history buff is righting that wrong, profiling the people who have long fascinated him -- from the 20th century's greatest entertainer... to...
6) Birdman
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In his first case as lead investigator with London's murder squad, Det. Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London.
Mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area-all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the postmortem examination reveals a gruesome signature connecting...
7) Gone
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Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel.
9) Ritual
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Police diver Flea Marley's discovery of a human hand underwater, as well as evidence that it had been recently amputated while the victim was alive, sends Flea and Detective Inspector Jack Caffery on a search for a young man who recently vanished.
10) Poppet
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"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking...
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Pigeon (Picture books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time--but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.
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My big fat zombie goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. Tom knows that there is only one thing to do: Zap the fish with a battery and bring him back to life! But there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with hypnotic powers ... and he's out for revenge!--Amazon.
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición español.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Español
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Cerdita ha sido invitada a una fiesta pro primera vez. Pero ¿qué se pondrá? Geraldo, el experto en fiestas, sabe exactamente cómo ayudarla, ¿o no?
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Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Edición primera en español.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
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Geraldo y Cerdita descubren el placer de que los lean. Pero ¡¿qué va a pasar cuando se acabe el libro?!
When Gerald the elephant and Piggie realize that they are in a book, they decide to have some fun with the reader.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom disappears, it's up to Jerry to brave the forest and its demons so she can save what's left of her family.
Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping
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"Eight hard-hitting yet irresistible short stories" by the celebrated Chinese writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Booklist).
"If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan," says Publishers Weekly. In this collection of short fiction, the acclaimed author presents stories of characters who suffer, physically and spiritually, under the yoke of an oppressive society—the newly unemployed factory worker...
"If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan," says Publishers Weekly. In this collection of short fiction, the acclaimed author presents stories of characters who suffer, physically and spiritually, under the yoke of an oppressive society—the newly unemployed factory worker...
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Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero—or antihero—is...
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In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering...
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Pigeon (Picture books) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.