Jane Yolen
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Series
Tartan magic volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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While in Scotland visiting relatives, thirteen-year-old twins hunting for ghosts in an old cemetery find big trouble when Peter is possessed by the spirit of a man who is determined to keep his twin sister from the man she loves.
Author
Series
Tartan magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting relatives in Scotland, three children come to the aid of a refugee from the distant past, a young Pict girl escaping a massacre of her people.
3) Scarecrow
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English
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Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao-whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy-human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave-souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow,...
4) Corvidae
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English
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A flock of shiny stories! Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long, captured mankind's attention, showing up in mythology, as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond.
In Corvidae birds are, born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will...
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English
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Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?
At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had
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