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Homestead volume 2
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When the sod roof of the Bowers family house caves in during a torrential September rain, Lissa Bowers and her daughter, Jolie, shepherd the children into the barn for the night. Skies clear the next morning, but the storms are not over for the Bowers family: Mr. Bowers has been arrested in Lincoln in the trouble between the farmers and the railroad. When everything comes to a head at a community meeting, Jolie is the only one who can make peace.
88) Donutty day
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"It's Donut Day! Freight Nate and Max have to take a giant decorative donut to the donut store. But when three hungry chickens give chase, they find themselves in trouble!"--
90) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
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Español
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"Todos a bordo, pero ¡cuidado! Los pasajeros que duermen en este tren tal vez nunca se despierten. En las primeras horas de Nochebuena, el tren cama de Londres a las Highlands descarrila, junto con los planes festivos de sus viajeros. Con el tren enterrado en Nieve en medio de la nada, los pasajeros solo se tienen unos a otros, y no todos llegarán a sus celebraciones navideñas. Mientras un asesino intenta capturar a los pasajeros uno por uno, la...
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Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /ai/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Painting Trains: Practicing the AI Sound. The instructional guide on the...
97) Apache Springs
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Bloody Arizona: "Yakima's life gets even more complicated than usual when four strangers ride into Apache Springs and shoot the town marshal while Yakima is locked in jail. They would have raped the marshal's wife and burned the entire town to the ground if Yakima hadn't shot his way out of the cell and intervened. Now the marshal's wife, Julia, calls on Yakima to wear her husband's badge and go up against the kill-crazy, vengeance-hungry Rebel Wilkes,...