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2) Odd Thomas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.
4) Never
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"'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover...
6) Deserts
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A kindergarten-level introduction to deserts, covering their climate, plant and animal life, and such defining features as their dry terrain"--
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[2008]
Description
Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. The brothers wanted to regain their friendship of each other. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course -- thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 26
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Description
Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over...
10) Deathwatch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. In her early...
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Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
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Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more–than–human.
18) Deserts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A short study of the various types of deserts in the world, where they are located, the plants and animals that inhabit them, their climates, and other related topics.
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Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sophie loves activity camp ... but is terrified of insects. It's so bad that she won't go into the tent on her own, just in case something flies at her, or she steps on a creepie-crawlie. But when she's given a compass by one of the other boys on the campsite, Sophie is magically transported to the desert on an adventure where they're impossible to avoid! With the help of survival expert Bear Grylls as her guide, she will learn how to withstand the...