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Pub. Date
2023.
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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Pursued by soldiers, Teacher and Shiva left their home and searched for a new one in a distant hamlet. They thought to hide away there, but fate was not so kind to them. The cursed soldiers... The Insiders' plans... Even Teacher himself. The mysteries surrounding them slowly begin coming to light...
523) Pigs might fly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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"All the sensible hogfolk in Pigdom Plains know that if pigs were meant to fly, they'd have been born with wings--but there's no convincing Lily Leanchops. The daughter of renowned inventor Hercules Fatchops, Lily has watched her father's flying machines fail time and time again. Working in secret, Lily is trying to build what her father couldn't: an aircraft that actually works. And of course, she's following his example and employing scientific...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Shiva has escaped, thanks to the agonizing decision made by the king of the Insiders to betray his kingdom. Now, with locket in hand, Shiva has returned to the cottage to rejoin Teacher. What she discovers there will bring her to tears as an unimaginable truth comes to light"--
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abril de 2021.
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"Candelaria tiene doce años y vive con su excéntrica familia en Parruca, un mítico lugar perdido entre montañas. Su madre habla con las piedras, su hermanastro cultiva hongos alucinógenos y su padre, un artista que esculpe ballenas, los ha abandonado. Mientras la vegetación empieza a devorar la casa, los tres reciben a extraños personajes: una mujer experta en plantas venenosas que lleva más de un muerto a cuestas, un hombre que teme a los...