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Author: Stewart Ross
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780545127325
Format: Hardcover
The Moon has always been a magical and mystical icon for people throughout
history. It is the only natural satellite of Earth. It is the 2nd brightest
object in the sky after the sun. Since prehistoric times, the Moon has been an
object of fascination, awe, and even worship. July 20, 2009, is the 40th
anniversary of the date that man first walked on the Moon. This special book
combines the story of the preparation, journey, arrival, and landing of Apollo
11 with scientific information about the Moon and its influence on our culture
through music, theater, literature, and more.
Author: Rachel Renee Russell
Illustrator: Rachel Renee Russell
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781416980063
Format: Hardcover
New school. New mean girl. New crush.
New diary so Nikki can spill about all of it...
This hilarious novel follows
eighth-grader Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles through text and sketches
her thoughts on friendships, crushes, popularity, and family.
Author: Carter Goodrich
Illustrator: Carter Goodrich
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781416938927
Format: Hardcover
The illustrator of "A Creature Was Stilling" delivers this
engaging tale of a humble hermit crab who frees a trapped flounder and
inadvertently becomes a hero, but isn't quite ready for the limelight.
Author: Frederic Lemercier
Illustrator: Emmanuel Guibert
Photographer: Didier Lefevre
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 9781596433755
Format: Paperback
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This
graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous
journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier
Lefevre's photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert, tells the
powerful story of a mission undertaken by men and women dedicated to mending the
wounds of war.
A Gone Novel
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Harper Teen
ISBN: 9780061449062
Format: Hardcover
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to
figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving,
developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids
without powers.Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town.
It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself,
and even the good ones turn murderous.But a larger problem looms. The
Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills,
begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them,
guiding them, manipulating them.
The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
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