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Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Visit St. Louis Cemetery no. 1, the oldest existing cemetery in New Orleans. Some people say it is haunted, with the ghosts of those buried there roaming amidst the stone tombs.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
43) Cold pursuit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ex-FBI profiler River Ryland still suffers from PTSD after a case went horribly wrong. Needing a fresh start, she moves to St. Louis to be near her ailing mother and opens a private investigation firm with her friend and former FBI partner, Tony St. Clair. They're soon approached by a grieving mother who wants them to find out what happened to her teenaged son, who disappeared four years ago. River knows there's almost no hope the boy is still alive,...
44) Revolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year...
46) Unbroken
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
49) Jekyll and Hyde
Publisher
[PBS Direct]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ten-part drama set in 1930s London focusing on Robert Jekyll, the grandson of the original doctor. The show will follow Robert Jekyll's quest to discover his real identity and the true nature of his family's cursed history.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1953
Language
English
Description
This is his autobiographical narrative of the preparation and execution of the first non-stop airplane passage between the continents of America and Europe, combined with an hour-by-hour account of that momentous, desperate, triumphant first flight over trackless water.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Anniversary ed. ; widescreen & full screen versions.
Language
English
Description
When young Billy comes to possess a secret treasure map, he sets sail with mild-mannered Capt. Smollet and a host of assorted Muppets and humans in search of the wealth. Their adventure is filled with songs, wacky humor, and irreverent silliness.
52) The German girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Champion. Survivor. Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 97, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from one of America's most inspiring lives. Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A young adult edition of the bestseller documents the story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war.
Author
Series
Last musketeer volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers."
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edici?n.
Language
Español
Description
En una tarde de mayo en 1943, un bombardero Fuerzas A?reas del Ej?rcito se estrell? en el Oc?ano Pac?fico y desapareci?, dejando s?lo una lluvia de escombros y una mancha de aceite, gasolina, y la sangre. A continuaci?n, en la superficie del oc?ano, un rostro apareci? - Lt. Louis Zamperini. Capturado por los japoneses y conducido a los l?mites de la resistencia, Zamperini responder?a desesperaci?n con el ingenio; sufrimiento con esperanza, determinaci?n,...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"In America, behind the public facade of nine of our most famed institutions and landmark structures, there is another world that is hidden from view. The special pierces the veil of secrecy which conceals forbidden histories and fascinating insider information from the public."-- Publisher.
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