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1) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
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Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel arde. Guy Montag es un bombero, y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica y escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aún conservan y leen libros. La visión de Bradbury es asombrosamente profética:...
4) Mujercitas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott es un emotivo relato muy femenino con personajes y situaciones memorables. Enamoramientos, aspiraciones intelectuales, complicaciones, vicisitudes en la vida de las jovencitas. La escritora utiliza una fina descripción de caracteres, que muestra el paso de la niñez a la juventud, pone énfasis en el espíritu de la libertad individual, algo no usual para la época. Las March demuestran sus aptitudes sociales tocando...
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Series
The Bantam language library volume 9
Language
English
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Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and proverbs based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, and other noted writers. Complete and faithful English translations are featured on the facing pages of the Spanish text. Exercises are also included.
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English
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"The legacy work by one of the most influential experts on Spanish cuisine. Penelope Casas was one of the premier experts on Spanish food: She taught Americans about jam serrano, Manchego cheese, and chorizo, in addition to countless dishes, from patatas bravas to churros. She wrote several acclaimed books, and 1,000 Spanish Recipes is her final work and legacy. It is the latest--and a very special--addition to the award-winning 1,000 Recipes series;...
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English
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Simple text and illustrations teach readers common clothing words in both English and Spanish. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Learning Spanish is lots of fun with our endearing WordBooks/Libros de Palabras series! Lighthearted illustrations guide readers through words they use and encounter every day. Simple scenes and familiar situations give visual cues to ease comprehension. These books are perfect for students learning basic...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Perrazo y Perrito son dos amigos caninos que est©Łn juntos en las buenas y en las malas. Y como todo buen perro sabe, los amigos que comen juntos... ℗Łduermen la siesta juntos!
Big Dog and Little Dog are canine companions who stick together through thick and thin. And as any good dog knows, friends who eat together ... nap together!
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Series
Language
English
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Simple text and illustrations teach readers common action words in both English and Spanish. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Learning Spanish is lots of fun with our endearing WordBooks/Libros de Palabras series! Lighthearted illustrations guide readers through words they use and encounter every day. Simple scenes and familiar situations give visual cues to ease comprehension. These books are perfect for students learning basic...
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Series
Language
English
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Simple text and illustrations teach readers common career words in both English and Spanish. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Learning Spanish is lots of fun with our endearing WordBooks/Libros de Palabras series! Lighthearted illustrations guide readers through words they use and encounter every day. Simple scenes and familiar situations give visual cues to ease comprehension. These books are perfect for students learning basic...
13) Aztec revenge
Author
Series
Aztec historical novels volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee after killing a man who was beating a horse, Juan the L©♭pero, who hides his mixed heritage to escape life as a beggar, embarks on a series of adventures as a highwayman, horse thief, and wealthy caballero before resolving to rescue a man who once saved his life.
15) El hobbit
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotauro
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
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Description
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free
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Simple text and illustrations teach readers common sports words in both English and Spanish. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Learning Spanish is lots of fun with our endearing WordBooks/Libros de Palabras series! Lighthearted illustrations guide readers through words they use and encounter every day. Simple scenes and familiar situations give visual cues to ease comprehension. These books are perfect for students learning basic...
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English
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English language learners find the answers to many questions they have about horses and discover fun facts about these horses through bilingual text. Accessible language, presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish, allows readers to experience the thrill of riding on horseback with each turn of each page. Including a helpful picture glossary, this book allows young readers to learn educational and exciting information about horses...
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English
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Simple text and illustrations teach readers common neighborhood words in both English and Spanish. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Learning Spanish is lots of fun with our endearing WordBooks/Libros de Palabras series! Lighthearted illustrations guide readers through words they use and encounter every day. Simple scenes and familiar situations give visual cues to ease comprehension. These books are perfect for students learning...
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Español
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Una de las obras maestras del escritor cubano, El reino de este mundo narra, a través de la voz del esclavo negro Ti Noël, el tránsito que sufrió Haití al pasar a convertirse, de colonia francesa gobernada por blancos, en una nación negra regida por el primer monarca coronado del Nuevo Mundo. En una atmósfera lujuriosa y sensual que delata el barroquismo y el realismo mágico de su autor, este relato nos permite conocer las rebeliones de Mackandal,...