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Sparks fly when Lucy Patterson and Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. After they're rescued, they spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Over the next year, as the two teenagers leave the city and they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally.
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Books of Ember volume 4
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When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter.
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Titles contained: The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education; The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World Vol. I; … Vol. II; The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey; The Plays of Aeschylus, … of Sophocles, … of Euripides, … of Aristophanes; The History of Herodotus, The History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; The Dialogues of Plato, The 7th Letter; The Works of Aristotle Vol. I; … Vol. II; Hippocratic...
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When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to...
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Fire of grace volume 7
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[Michael Frederick]
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[2023]
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English
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"When I saw that storm over Ledges State Park... I remembered my mother telling me that "Ledges" would make a great movie." -- Back cover.
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"Here is the gripping conclusion to an acclaimed trilogy about one suburban neighborhood's existence after a global blackout. Teenager Adam Daley has killed again. It had to be done, part of him knows that, but murder changes a person. It can certainly change a kid who's already grown up too quickly, too harshly, in the wake of the catastrophic global shutdown four months ago. In the name of safety and survival, Adam and his neighbors have turned...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
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[2011], c2010
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English
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Landforms #1: Take a ride in a "traveling machine" to learn about the form and function of landforms. Highlights oceans, rivers, streams, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, plateaus, deserts, islands, and more.
Rocks: the solid Earth materials #1: Discover the three ways rocks are formed and many of the properties of rocks and minerals -- like size, shape, color, and texture.
A closer look at Earth: From above and below the surface, students take...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
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[2011], c2010
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English
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Plant parts and their uses: Roots, stems, leaves, fruit, and seeds -- plants have all the parts they need! Learn about each part of a plant and its purpose.
Plant lifecycles: With the help of a friendly scarecrow, students identify the basic needs of plants. They learn how seeds grow into plants and that the plant goes through changes called a lifecycle.
How plants grow: Students will investigate and understand that in order for seeds to germinate...
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Weldon Owen
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Get ready-get set-survive! You're lost in the woods without food or water. Confronted by an armed assailant in the dead of night. Forced to outrun a deadly tornado. Don't worry-The Ultimate Survival Manual has you covered. Out in the wild: from navigating with a compass to fending off a mountain lion, learn to prevail in the forests, deserts, and open oceans like an expert outdoorsman. During a disaster: whether it's a towering tsunami or a blazing...
