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1) Kira-kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
American girls collection
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
American girls collection
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
3) Kira
Author
Series
Shadow of the dragon volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller/EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Kira needs every bit of her will power and the help of a baby dragon to protect her sister and to see the rest of her family again when war comes to the kingdom.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
American girls collection
Girl of the year. Kira volume 1
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
American girls collection
Girl of the year. Kira volume 1
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kira Bailey is living her dream: Cuddling koalas and bottle-feeding baby kangaroos. Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt Mamie, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When Kira falls in love with an orphaned koala joey, her joy is complete--until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away. Suddenly Kira can't seem to do anything right. She's put the wombats and her beloved koala joey in danger,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the next five years, hundreds of thousands of children with autism spectrum disorder will reach adulthood. And while diagnosis and treatment for children has improved dramatically in recent years, no one is answering the question that plagues so many parents: What happens to my child when I am no longer able to care for or assist him? In this ground-breaking book, autism expert Chantal Sicile-Kira and her son Jeremy take on the challenge of planning...
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
8) Banned books for kids: reading lists and activities for teaching kids to read censored literature
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Claire Abrams's dreams became a nightmare when she passed on a genetic mutation that killed her little boy. Now she wants a second chance to be a mother, and finds it in Robert Nash, a maverick fertility doctor who works under the radar with Jillian Hendricks, a cunning young scientist bent on making her mark--and seducing her boss. Claire, Robert, and Jillian work together to create the world's first baby with three genetic parents--an unprecedented...
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Series
Deadglass trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the first of a dazzling new romantic trilogy, one woman's courageous search plunges her into a millennia-old supernatural war—and an irresistible passion. . .
Nurse Kayla Friday has dedicated her life to science and reason. But for her, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and fragmented, frightening memories. And now the only clue to her sister's murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies. . .and puts Kayla in the sights...
Nurse Kayla Friday has dedicated her life to science and reason. But for her, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and fragmented, frightening memories. And now the only clue to her sister's murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies. . .and puts Kayla in the sights...
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Series
Hollow kingdom (Buxton) volume 1
Language
English
Description
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racialdisparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
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Series
Five nights at Freddy's volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried.Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"We all want to bring more calm into our lives. We all want to feel more focused and positive. Mindfulness is the key to making it happen. Breathe like a bear guides us through fun exercises to help us relax and stretch our imaginations. Because just like we need to exercise our bodies, we need to flex our mindfulness muscles!"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Hollow kingdom (Buxton) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T., which was, of course, short for Sh*t Turd . . . When the world last checked-in with its beloved Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry, zombie-like beasts, and all things natural had started staking claim to territory that had previously been inhabited by humans. And S.T., alongside his Bloodhound-bestie Dennis, had set about saving pets that...
17) Hearts of chaos
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Series
Language
English
Description
Lady Lucia draws on her untapped powers to defeat an evil force that threatens the world, a move that makes her betrothed--a feared shifter clan leader--uncomfortable, but also stirs in him a hunger for her.
18) The silver eyes
Author
Series
Five nights at Freddy's volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie and her childhood friends get together on the anniversary of the event at the abandoned pizza place to find that the four animatronic entertainment mascots have changed.
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Language
English
Description
"Like many Americans in the middle of the 21st century, aspiring actress Kira Clark is in debt. She financed her drama education with loans secured by a "lifetime services contract." If she defaults, her creditors will control every aspect of her life. Behind on her payments and facing foreclosure, Kira reluctantly accepts a large signing bonus to become a corporate gunfighter for TKC Insurance. After a year of training, she will take her place on...
20) The grave soul
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 23
Language
English
Description
"When Guthrie Hewitt calls on restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless, he doesn't know where else he can turn. Guthrie has fallen for a girl-Kira Adler. In fact, he was planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. But his trip home with Kira over Thanksgiving made him uneasy. All her life, Kira has been haunted by a dream-a nightmare, really. In the dream, she witnesses her mother being murdered. She knows it can't be true because the dream...