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62) Venus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the planet Venus's position in the solar system, size, craters, and clouds and what it looks like from Earth.
65) Pajaros
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Looks at all kinds of favorite birds, from owls and penguins, to parrots and eagles.
Miradas en todas las clases de pajaros preferidos, de buhos y de pinguinos, a los loros y a las aguilas.
67) Big machines
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Demonstrates how the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and other construction machines all play a part in building a new park.
69) First Knight
Description
This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of breathtaking battles, heart-pounding courage, of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees ... and the undying passion that made it live forever.
71) The Terminal
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
73) Meet the Fockers
Series
Meet the parents volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Description
Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that Memnon was...
76) Van Helsing
Pub. Date
[2004]
Formats
Description
Legendary 19th-century monster hunter Van Helsing is sent to mysterious Transylvania to battle the evil Dracula is trying to release with the unwilling help of Frankestein's monster and a wolf-man.
Author
Series
Curious George original adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The engaging exploits of the little monkey translated into Spanish with a complete vocabulary at the end of the book; translations at foot of each page.
79) Esperanza renace
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The author, born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants, provides an account of her life growing up in a family of migrant farm workers, and tells how she overcame the disadvantages of her youth to attend college and earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering.