Playaway Digital Audio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 8th Grade
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
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Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...