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1) Braced
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
Author
Series
Brothers in arms volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left with little back in Kansas, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he's inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half-brother he never knew existed. But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half-brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other's throats and the only one willing to...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children's Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous-and sometimes infamous-child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some 250,000 abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant...
Author
Series
NISTIR volume 88-3849
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Author
Series
NIST technical note volume 1863-3
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
NIST technical note volume 1863-2
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Young minister Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, sending orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. Until 1929, Brace's Society and other charities sent more than 150,000 neglected children by train to 47 states.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the art teacher disappears after a strange display of flashing lights, it looks like Bailey Elementary is in a bind. But, out of nowhere a mysterious and pale woman with silver-white hair and an unusual white outfit shows up to take her place. Soon after her arrival, the objects of Bailey City start to lose their color, but the new teacher seems to be getting more colorful every day. Can the Bailey School kids stop Bailey City from being washed...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Some people need to wear leg braces. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn how leg braces can help and what daily life is like for someone who wears them. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...