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I survived volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, eleven-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction, and chaos to make his way back home.
2) The Pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence."--Pub.desc.
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From producer Jerry Bruckheimer (PEARL HARBOR) comes PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, the thrilling high-seas adventure with a mysterious twist. The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's (Academy Award(R) Nominee Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's beautiful...
Pub. Date
2007
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Program reproduced from carefully selected archival films. State of the art technology has been used to present the highest quality production. However, some imperfections in image and sound quality are unavoidable. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a surprise attack by Japanese naval aviation against the American held island of Oahu and Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. This story details one of the most momentus events in...
9) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
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The story of two friends who join the military during World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor, and fall in love with the same Army nurse.
10) Dragon pearl
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Thousand worlds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces."--
11) Pearl
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Dakotah treasures volume 2
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Ruby Torvald has turned Dove House, the scandalous inheritance her father left to her and her sister, into a respectable establishment. Her newest boarder is Pearl Hossfuss, a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher from Chicago. Hiding scars within and without, Pearl has given up hope that any man would want to marry her. Her father has his own ideas, insisting she marry his clerk, a widower with five children. So Pearl flees to Dakotah Territory in response...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. An Independent Bestseller Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Tracy Chevalier...
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 51
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo and his friends discover a huge oyster with an enormous pearl inside. After a feature article in the Rodent's Gazette, can they protect it from being stolen?
14) Pearl
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.
16) Pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When young Pearl, a mermaid, becomes caretaker of a single grain of sand, she discovers that performing even the smallest task well can transform the world.
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It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.
Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning...
Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning...
20) Poisoned Pearls
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Pub. Date
2014
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Someone murders Cassie's best friend in the alley behind the sex toyshop she manages. To make her day even better, the pre-cog working the case declares that Cassie saw the event. Which would put her in two places at the same time. Impossible. Cassie has no special abilities. Not unless you consider sarcasm a superpower.
"Poisoned Pearls"-the first novel in a fast-paced urban fantasy series-follows our irreverent heroine on her journey through an...