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Pegi Deitz Shea
1) Abe in Arms
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A senior in high school, Abe's got a Division I track scholarship awaiting him, a hot girlfriend, and a loving and wealthy adoptive family, including a brother his age. But suddenly, horrific flashbacks and seizures rip him back five-years ago to war-torn Africa, where he lost his mother, his sister, his friends, and almost his own life to torturous violence. In therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Abe uncovers even darker moments that make...
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Astra Publishing House
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Mai spends her days at the Widows' Store, listening to the Hmong women as they stitch and talk, stitch and talk. They are making pa'ndau—-brightly colored story cloths—which they sell to the traders from Chiang Khan. Mai wishes she, too, could make one of the beautiful pa'ndau, but what story could she tell? This moving and poignant tale depicts life in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mai lives there with her grandmother, who helps her as she struggles...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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This book is an exploration of the life and work of Noah Webster, which discusses his promotion of a living American language and universal education for all, career as a newspaper publisher, and creation of America's first insurance company.
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Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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The Smith sisters were unfairly taxed on their property,they refused to pay (taxation without representation) and in response their cows were taken away - but not for long. This is a funny chapter in the history of women's suffrage.
