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Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The founding of America was not accomplished by a handful of people; it required the heart, soul, and grit of an entire nation. Today, we rightfully honor the efforts of the Founding Fathers, but what about everyone else who sacrificed for the cause? Introducing 'Forgotten Founders', the inspiring book of stories about the heroic women, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and others who played pivotal roles in America's birth. Make no...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will has no choice. His father drags him along on a wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark--whether he likes it or not. All the while, Will senses that something about this trip isn't quite right. Along the journey, Will meets fascinating strangers and experiences new thrills, including mountain cliffs, whitewater rapids, and a heart-hammering bear encounter. It is a journey into the soul of America's past, and...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Join your favorite ghoulfriends in an all-new aquatic adventure! When the ghouls get pulled into the school pool, they're transported to the gore-geous underwater world of the Great Scarrier Reef. Lagoona realizes she's come home and, in a fintastic mission of the heart, decides to come to terms with her own freaky flaws. Of course she'll need some help from the most creeperiffic friends ever as she confronts a frenemy from her past, competes in a...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Who helps Beethoven, Einstein and Lincoln in their brain-locked hours of need? Who unleashes a steady stream of film sendups, cultural spoofs and gags? Who puts the bop in the bop-shoo-bop? Well, two out of three isn't bod, and making things even better in Season 1 are friends who are fiendish, feathered, furred, and frazzled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The surest way to a cats heart is through his stomach. Garfield knows this tasty fact from experience! After all, the only thing bigger than Garfields heart (and his latest hearty slab of lasagna) is his darling?little? tummy. But when hes not eating between meals, Americas favorite feline is dishing out ample helpings of humor. So whether hes triple-lutzing his way to supper or tap dancing with Odie by the light of the moon, Garfield was born to...
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