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Author
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What's more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula Bernstein, a married writer and mother living in New York, also knew she was adopted, but had...
663) Out of sight
Author
Series
Kensy and Max volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When does a secret become a lie? And how do you tell right from wrong when deception is all around you? Kensy and Max are gearing up for their first Pharos review, a rite of passage with no room for failure. But juggling studies and the spy life isn't without its complications. As the dust settles from their last mission, and family members find their place in the new world order, old tensions rise to the surface. There's also the school play to...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it?
666) Eiffel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
As Gustave Eiffel looks over Paris from the tower he built, he recalls his turbulent romance with a young woman that took place when he was designing and building the tower.
Author
Series
The dispossessed volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Residing in a desolate abbey protected by gargoyles, two beautiful teenaged sisters in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris discover deadly and otherworldly truths as they search for their missing brother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An abridged retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
672) Not in time
Series
Lost Art Investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Art historian Genevieve McKenna, who just lost her museum job, lands an exciting assignment: Trace the path of a drawing the Nazis stole in Paris and restore it to the rightful owners. Julien Brooks, whose family claims the drawing, has vital information. He also has a killer smile and speaks flawless French. She's eager to get to know him better. A lot better. But someone — could it be Julien? — seems very determined to thwart her work. And why...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A plot by the Pirate Cats to turn an almost-complete Eiffel Tower in nineteenth-century Paris into a gigantic monument to Catardone's already monumental ego compels Geronimo to tap the scientific expertise of Ampy Von Volt and take to the skies.
678) Chasing Degas
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
At the time of the Impressionists, a young ballet dancer races around Paris searching for Monsieur Degas, who accidentally took her bag--and the tutu she needs for the recital in which she is to perform that night. Includes reproductions of paintings by French Impressionist painters, with an author's note.
680) Paris cat
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
On their first day in Paris, Annie's cat goes off to chase a mouse and wanders around the whole city before finding her way back where she belongs.
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