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1) Annie John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Jamaica Kincaid presents a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise...
2) Annie John
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Annie John (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Jamaica Kincaid
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A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua. 'If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him-why not a school, why not a hospital,...
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The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days).
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Babysitting is a great job. It's great fun, and it's a great way to help other people! This book will give you all sorts of great tips on becoming a better babysitter! Today's reluctant readers are easily drawn to the distractions of electronic games, DVDs, and TV. But what if they had a book series designed just for them? What if all the titles featured high-interest topics, rockin' designs, and language kids understand? Our Reading Rocks! series...
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The Year is 1908, Chelsea Massachusetts, Palm Sunday, April 12, the fire bells rang...a split second in time was all it took for my great grandparents, August and Christina Reekast and their eight children...August Jr, Nettie, Annie, John, Lillian, Lena, Ida and Teddy to lose everything. A Massive fire ripped through the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts, the flames, so intense, the glow was seen one hundred twenty miles away off the coast line of Maine....
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"McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism ... This is not a story of easy redemption ... McFadden writes candidly about the treacherous hold of addiction." -Publishers Weekly "Riveting... . So nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes." -Toni Morrison, author of Beloved "The...
11) The Descent
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English
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"Twenty years ago, the Black Flu decimated the population of the world.
The infected died and then rose again as flesh-eating zombies.
The UK's response was to create Safe Zones, providing sanctuary for those that survived. Chloe only barely made it to safety and now her daughter Sammie wants to go outside.
When Sammie makes a discovery that could bring hope to all the survivors, one man's twisted greed turns that dream into a nightmare.
Don't...
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." -The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
14) Starstruck
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Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Jessica Olsen visits her grandparents in Los Angeles and meets pop star Christopher Wilde, a hilarious adventure and maybe romance follows. Includes extended scene and song, rock-along tracks from the movie, plus three music videos.
15) Annika: Season 2
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed and the Marine Homicide Unit return to solve more brutal and unexplained murders that wash up in Scotland's waters. The team is challenged as their dynamics shift, pushing them to rapidly adapt as they encounter murders more complex than ever before.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.
20) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.