John Rowe
1) Smudge
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c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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An old rat recalls an adventure from his younger days when he was carried off by a bird, a dog, a rabbit, and other animals, before finding his way back where he belongs with his very own family.
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This groundbreaking book should definitely help further the movement of what the authors call "a new gerontology." John Rowe, M.D., and Robert Kahn, Ph.D., both members of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network, thoroughly debunk the myth that aging has to be a painful process of debilitation.
3) Swann's way
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Swanns Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
7) I wonder
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know", and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!
10) The jungle book
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," focusing on stories that feature Mowgli, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther.