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2) Brave
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Merida (Kelly Macdonald), the impetuous but courageous daughter of Scottish King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), is a skilled archer who wants to carve out her own path in life. Her defiance of an age-old tradition angers the Highland lords and leads to chaos in the kingdom. Merida seeks help from an eccentric witch (Julie Walters), who grants her an ill-fated wish. Now, Merida must discover the true meaning of courage and...
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet in the air with the President, his family, and more than fifty other people on board. The terrorists threaten to execute a hostage every 30 minutes if their demands are not met. The official word from Washington is "no negotiations".
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Four years after Chris and Annie Nielsen lose their children in a traffic accident, Chris himself is killed and finds himself reunited with his children in a beautiful and astonishing afterlife, but Annie commits suicide in despair and is banished to a very different realm. Chris risks his own eternal happiness to find Annie and rescue her from her fate.
Author
Description
Explains how in the language of mathematics, fractions, decimals and percents are three different ways of describing the same parts of things.
Sumario en espaänol: Explica câomo en la lengua de las matemâaticas, las fracciâones, los decimales y los por ciento son tres diversas maneras de describir las mismas partes de cosas.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this variation of the Cinderella story, coming from the Hispanic tradition in New Mexico, Arciá and her wicked stepsisters have different encounters with a magical hawk and are left physically changed in ways that will affect their meeting with the prince.
15) Hair = Pelo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book gives an introduction to hair, its characteristics, and how to take care of it.
16) Baby rattlesnake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he's ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson.