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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way. No announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the Pennant, The Giants Lose The Pennant!" Such moments are indelibly etched upon the mind of every sports fan. Or rather,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With this all-access pass, Tony Hawk shares the joy, the exhaustion, the adrenaline, and the pain of life on the road. Between Boardslides and Burnout puts you right on the edge of the ramp and on the road with him -- from competitions to demos, to store openings, to autograph signings, to movie sets, and back home.
Never before has a professional skateboarder offered such a complete look into his life -- and mind.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
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