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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia battleship, became an unlikely hero during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Without any formal training, Miller took control of an antiaircraft gun, shooting down enemy planes and saving countless lives. In this action-packed graphic novel, relive the brave actions that earned Miller the Navy Cross, making him the first African American to receive this honor. With...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Language
English
Description
"The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And could Frank be Frankenstein's monster--even though he loves to plant flowers?"--Dust jacket cover.
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea than surrounded by the people in her sleepy South African town who always seem to let her down. But when a new friend from below the surface is taken by poachers, Pearl may need a little help after all. Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills. But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving...
7) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Graphix an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl who lives in Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls ill, Amy travels to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941. When the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor, it becomes impossible for Amy to return to Hawaii. Conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese army, Amy struggles with questions of loyalty and fears about her family amidst rumors of internment...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And could Frank be Frankenstein's monster -- even though he loves to plant flowers?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And could Frank be Frankenstein's monster -- even though he loves to plant flowers?"--.
10) Squished
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own...
11) The pearl
Author
Language
English
Description
For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
12) The good earth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When Pearl runs away from her abusive father, she has nowhere to go--until she stumbles upon a disguise that gives her the key to a new identity. Reborn as a boy named Soupy, she hitches her star to Ramshackle, a hobo who takes her under his wing. Ramshackle's kindness and protection go a long way toward helping Soupy heal from her difficult past. But he has his own demons to wrestle with, and he'll need Soupy just as much as she needs him. Two misfits...
Author
Series
Poketto monsutā supesharu volume 38
Publisher
VIZ Kids, VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dia, Pearl, and Platinum must battle the Pokémon Dialga and Palkia who are controlled by Team Galactic, but when a new Pokémon joins the fight, everyone is left wondering whose side it is on.
Author
Series
Poketto monsutā supesharu volume 34
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Pokémon trainers Pearl and Diamond have a lifelong dream to star in a Pokémon comedy act, but somehow end up as bodyguards to a pampered rich girl on a quest to reach the peak of Mount Coronet.
Author
Series
Poketto monsutā supesharu volume 31
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Pearl, Diamond and Lady Berlitz finally reach the base of Mt. Coronet. They're all set to scale its cloudy peak ... but first, there are dancing contests to win, badges to compete for and enemies to evade! Speaking of enemies, are those shadowy figures members of ... Team Galactic?! Plus, meet Roserade, Stunky, Probopass, Buneary, Pachirisu, Croagunk, and many more Sinnoh Pokemon friends!"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Team Galactic commanders Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are determined to bomb Lake Verity, Lake Valor and Lake Acuity to awaken the legendary lake Pokemon that dwell in their depths! Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum divide forces to stop them - but can they conquer?"--Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Getty Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to a concentration...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Shares coverage of the events surrounding the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, offering insight into the devastation that sank four battleships and killed more than two thousand servicemen before propelling the United States into World War II.