Cara Hoffman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The drowsy Dormouse named Bernard Pepperlin of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland has been trapped in time subjected to an endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and others. One day a girl in a blue dress crashes the Hatter's tea party, the Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. When the Hatter shoves him into a porcelain teapot painted with the New York City's skyline, he's thrilled to be transported to a magnificent new world where clocks...
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English
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Claire and Gene moved with their daughter Alice to Haeden, New York for a fresh start. In doing so, they unwittingly re-write the story of her life. Wendy White has strong roots in Haeden. Her story has a beginning and an end, but is missing the most important piece - the middle. What happened to Wendy White? Reporter Stacey Flynn who will chronicle Wendy White's existence from all the fragments she can find, and forge a path toward the end. But...
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English
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"Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"--hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they...
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English
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Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.
There's no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy.
But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs' songs can't fix—and it's making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A jovial singing frog, Tubs, helps his best friend, a human doctor, investigate a mysterious prophecy to uncover the source of an illness that is spreading through their beloved Louisiana swamp, infecting the animals that make the region their home.
6) RUIN
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Language
English
Description
A little girl who disguises herself as an old man, an addict who collects dollhouse furniture, a crime reporter confronted by a talking dog, a painter trying to prove the non-existence of god, and lovers in a penal colony who communicate through technical drawings-these are just a few of the characters who live among the ruins. RUIN is both bracingly timely and eerily timeless in its examination of an American state in free-fall, unsparing in its...
