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2) Nightjohn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery...
Language
English
Description
The Justice League are Earth's finest super heroes and protectors of humanity. But in the mind of the Dark Knight, they are potentially the most dangerous people on the planet should any of them go rogue. Over time, Batman has compiled top-secret contingency plans in the event he is forced to neutralize one of his fellow Justice League members such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Martian Manhunter or the Flash.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After a ferocious hand-to-hand fight left Sydney on the floor, unconscious, she awakens to find boyfriend Vaughn waiting for her at a safe house. According to Vaughn, Sydney has been missing for over two years, and he is wearing a wedding ring. Syd must now adjusting to a world that seems upside-down. Will is in the witness protection program; Irina is on the run; Jack is being held in a federal detention facility; Dixon is now director of the division;...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her affair with Terry (Steve Guttenberg), so he gives evidence in Sylvia's place, but when it is found that he is not telling the full truth, he becomes the main suspect... "*The Bedroom Window is a diligent,...
9) Sounder
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help (and sometimes hindrance) of various people along the road.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Walker is an earnest entrepreneur working in the construction and trucking industries in 1971 San Francisco. When two oil tankers collide off of the coast, unleashing millions of gallons of oil and spawning an immense environmental disaster, Charlie gets right to work. First, he lands a lucrative contract to clean the coastline. Then, with only three trucks, Charlie puts his heart and his hands into trying to save the coastline, all while...
11) Justice on trial
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Enemy Below: The Justice League uses their super human strength to save Aquaman and his family -- In Blackest Night: Green Lantern is put on trial for destroying a planet but the Justice League proves it wasn't him.
12) Paradise lost
Series
Justice League volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Enemy Below: The Justice League uses their super human strength to save Aquaman and his family -- In Blackest Night: Green Lantern is put on trial for destroying a planet but the Justice League proves it wasn't him.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When a Thanagarian spaceship descends upon Earth, the Justice League turns to Hawkgirl for some answers. And their questions multiply when they discover she has been living amongst them as a spy! As the Thanagarian visitors reveal their dark intentions, Hawkgirl must choose between loyalty to her people and love for her friends on her adopted planet Earth.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
17) NightJohn
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit.
19) Buffalo soldiers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H, which protected the Western territories in post-Civil War times. The story focuses on the troops' attempts to capture an Apache warrior, Vittorio, who slaughters the settlers in New Mexico. The film examines the racial tensions that existed between the black soldiers and some of the white soldiers, and the truths about the Indian invaders.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Black Panther's origin is retold in cinematic scope with social satire and all-out action. Created by Stan Lee and penciller-co-plotter Jack Kirby, Black Panther first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966). He is the first black superhero in mainstream American comics.
