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21) The Golden Bell
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor's son, has carefully carried the High Priest's robe-with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem-home for his father to mend. But one day, one of the bells is missing! When nobody turns in the lost bell at the Claiming Stone, Itamar wonders if the tiny bell will ever be found. A surprise ending...
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Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Shalom! Hop aboard a plane with Grover to visit Israel in this board book from Kar-Ben featuring characters from Sesame Street. Join Grover as he tours the sights of Israel, munching on pita at Machane Yehuda and swimming in Eilat.
23) Tomorrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
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English
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When Yazan is no longer allowed to go to the park and play outside, he learns why his parents watch the news all day and why the streets around his house in Syria are quickly changing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author's own life experience and inspired by a true story, Nour's Secret Library is about the power of books to heal, transport and create safe spaces during difficult times. Illustrations by Romanian artist Vali Mintzi superimpose the colorful world the children construct over black-and-white...
25) Hard Hat Cat!
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Of all the stray cats in Israel, a kitten sits high in a tree above girders, beams, cement mixers and cranes. Avi wants to adopt the friendly kitten although his mom- and the family dog- don't like the idea. But, every day the clever cat comes back, becoming a family's "forever cat"!
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After a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the war made feeding and caring for the animals impossible-they died of thirst, hunger, or injury-and replacing them meant finding large sums of money and overcoming the blockade or the risk of bringing them in through...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This picture book written and illustrated by John Hendrix focuses on the Biblical accounts of miracles performed by Jesus and concludes with the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. There is a detailed author's note and a list of Biblical passages" -- Provided by publisher.
28) Wanting Mor
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Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category
Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and Jameela lives with a birth defect that has left her with a cleft lip, she feels relatively secure, sustained by her faith and the strength of her beloved mother, Mor.
But when Mor suddenly dies, Jameela's father impulsively
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At the dawn of the Young Turk Revolution, an English girl goes on the adventure of a lifetime. For years Julia has stared at her globe, dreaming of countries on the other side of the earth. In 1907, when her father is assigned to go on a diplomatic mission to the exotic Ottoman Empire, Julia begs him not to leave her alone in the house that has been empty since her mother died. Although Julia is only sixteen and young women rarely travel abroad, her...
30) My Gaza
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Ahmy and Binny are neighbors, yet a world of differences separates them. They are, caught in the middle of a deep-rooted war in the Middle East. Yet when, Ahmy crosses the wall that divides their villages, he and Binny come to realize that they may not be so different after all. But, in the midst of suicide bombings and funerals of children, will they be seen as peaceful heroes by their people, or traitors? Many of us have watched scenes on the nightly...
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"It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? Open this book to join Rashin in discovering the true things that shape a...
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Breadwinner series volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In 2021, the Taliban regain power in Afghanistan. What will happen now to Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner? The gate was within reach now. All they would have to do was crawl up the bank of the gully, out of the sewer water, and up to the soldiers...Two more steps, and they were at the edge of the water. Three big steps, and they were out of the gully. A dozen more steps on dry land, and they would be at the gate, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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During the Israeli occupation of Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine, twelve-year-old Karim and his friends create a secret place for themselves where they can momentarily forget the horrors of war.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
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English
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"Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat"--Verso page.
36) Unsettled
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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Shadow Squadron volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Lieutenant Kimiyo Yamashita is known for his iron will and nerves of steel, but when Shadow Squadron is tasked with protecting an Iraqi terrorist-turned-politician, even the hardened sniper flinches. Yamashita promises to keep the dirty V.I.P. in his sights at all times . . . but that only makes the itch to pull the trigger more tempting.
38) The breadwinner
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Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 710L
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English
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Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
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Breadwinner series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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Teenage Parvana is imprisoned by American soldiers in Afghanistan. While waiting to find out her fate, she remembers the past four years of her life, finally reunited with her mother and sisters, and finally getting an education. But many in Afghanistan don't believe girls should be educated, and that means Parvana and her family are in danger.
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