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3) Granny Dan
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben's personality and infectious laughter...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
c2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their father gets sick and cannot take them out trick or treating on their first Halloween in their new country, Anya and her sisters and brother are surprised when their shy mother agrees to accompany them.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It's the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs...
9) Knife skills
Author
Series
Shadows of Chicago mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average restaurant, the only place that will give her a job. Things change when she finds head chef Louie Ferrar dead in the walk-in freezer of his restaurant. But instead of closing the place down, the owner, Russian gang boss Anatoly Morzov, not only offers her Louie's job, but also the position of his personal...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
11) Anya's ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend wasn't one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend - even a dead one - is just what she needs. But Anya's new B.F.F. isn't kidding...
12) Be prepared
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
244 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.
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