Henry Fisher
1) A New World
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A grand-scale nuclear war between the U.S. and the United Korean Empire leads to the contamination of Earth's atmosphere, leaving the planet uninhabitable. Piper, a microbiology intern working under the world-renowned Dr. Landry is surprised when she is selected to join a last-ditch effort to colonize a planet within a nearby solar system in the Goldilocks Zone.
Leaving behind her peaceful life with her grandmother, Piper and Dr. Landry travel to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...