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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
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When a meteor hits the moon, teenage Miranda and her friends and family struggle to survive the unimaginable. Four gripping books that follow their ordeal are collected in this single-volume edition, including Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
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"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
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Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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"Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the Russian army, and a small number returned to Poland after the war. Those who made it out of Russia alive were lucky--and nine-year-old Krystyna Mihulka was...
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When the world was flipped on its head in early 2020, Medix went into crisis mode with everyone else. Business came to a halt. Clients and competitors alike were shutting their doors at record pace. Major cities were turning to ghost towns and the idea of normal life as we knew it was being questioned.
As COVID-19 attempted to pull Medix into the depths, the leadership team struggled. They sought new and innovative ways to keep revenue coming in...
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The year 2020 brought about a totally unprecedented experience for humanity: a worldwide pandemic. Life as we knew it changed almost instantly. We found ourselves quarantining at home, wearing masks in public, and using large amounts of hand sanitizer and disinfectant. As the months dragged on and the search for a COVID-19 vaccine continued, social distancing began to feel like solitary confinement, the rising death toll from the virus made the future...
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“Ticket to the World” is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all.
New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is about to hit us, no idea of the seismic waves of change approaching. The 80s transformed life as we knew it. Music, style and culture exploded in a haze of...
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Grief: A Mamas Unwanted Journey is not for those looking for pat answers, quick fixes, or easy solutions to work through, but for those on the journey through the sting of death. It is also for those who may one day walk arm in arm with another down this horrible road, facing griefs raw and searing pain. Great grief is a ferocious fire. It can be a destroying or a refining fireor both at once. This book combines searing honesty with wisdom and consolation....
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COULD THIS BE YOUR DEFINING MOMENT?
Navigating Defining Moments speaks about nothing less than being opportunistic. During the great disruption caused by the recent pandemic, some people have pessimistically suggested that the world is forever changed and life as we knew it will never be the same. However, Dr. Phillips and Kelvin are convinced that we can seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to make significant strides in our lives, organizations...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.
16) Day zero
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Day zero duology volume 1
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"Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she's sure will never come. She's an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she's ready to relax. Her big plans include making it to level 99 in her favorite MMORPG and spending the weekend with her new hunky stepbrother, Toby. But all that disaster training...
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Have you ever felt like you were living the American dream? I did. Have you ever felt as if the rug had been, snatched right out from under you? I did, too. Did you feel as if God had abandoned you? Me, too. Did you find yourself questioning if God were even real? Ashamedly, I wondered that, too. Raymond and I were married at a young age. We had such big dreams and high expectations. I held on to the "white-picket-fence" dream while he held on to...
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Veteran journalist and southern storyteller Tom Poland has been writing about the disappearing rural South for nearly four decades. With a companionable appreciation for nostalgia, preservation, humor, and wonder, Georgialina: A Southland as We Knew It brings to life once more the fading and often-forgotten unfiltered character of the South as Poland takes readers down back roads to old homeplaces, covered bridges, and country stores. He recalls hunting...
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2023
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In an unprecedented year, the world faced a threat that upended life as we knew it. Heroes emerged. Leaders fumbled. Cultures clashed. These are not those stories. These are the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times: nurses, teachers, parents, children. Stories that show what it was like to work on the COVID response unit; to watch your favorite hiking trail be consumed by flames; to walk in the rubble of a catastrophic explosion....
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Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir's award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is nature pristine and defenseless, or sentient and devious? Is being human really a prerequisite for being political?
In a world where birds on Viagra punch above their weight and termites hijack the heating systems of major cities, animals can be recast...