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1) 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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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.
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[2016]
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A first memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his witness to the attacks that left him with burns over more than 65 percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
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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...
7) Pearl
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[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.
10) 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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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...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO, as a new assistant professor in the History Department at the U.S. Naval Academy, I shared an office suite with Elmer B. "Ned" Potter. Ned had taught at the Naval Academy since before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was also the co-editor with Chester Nimitz of the book Sea Power (1961), which we all used as a text in the required naval history course that I subsequently taught at the Academy for thirty years. Ned knew...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not yet inextricably linked, and the greatest power the world...
17) Dragon pearl
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Series
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."--
18) Pearls
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Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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An introduction to pearls, how they are made, where they are found, cultured pearls, what they look like, and more.
19) 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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Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom.