Michael Fry
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English
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As a RAF Chinook crewman, Mick Fry's exposure to Afghanistan spanned over 10 years and countless deployments, from watching 9/11 unfold in Australia, leaving the deck of HMS Ocean off the coast of Pakistan under the cover of darkness all the way through numerous fighting seasons and the chaos of Helmand Province. The Chinook helicopter was the workhorse of the British Military operations in Afghanistan, and the crews from RAF Odiham were confronted...
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English
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This new edition of Michael Fry's remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range of concerns - from education, evangelism and philanthropy to spying, swindling and drug running. Stories of Scottish regiments on the rampage, cannibalism and other atrocities are contrasted with the deeds of...
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English
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"Engaging and very readable . . . an essential read for those wanting to get under the skin of modern Scottish history" from the author of Glasgow (Scottish Field).
Michael Fry here applies his uniquely wide-ranging procedures of Scottish historical analysis to the eighteenth century, which gave this small nation its one era of truly global significance. He adds: "Never again was it to be so exemplary: unless, perhaps, in the twenty-first century."...
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English
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This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the 1830s in a period of government later dubbed 'the Dundas Despotism'. Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Hilo! Author-illustrator team Michael Fry and Bradley Jackson return with a hilarious and heartfelt adventure starring the characters from The Naughty List. Some nasty imaginary creatures have just escaped into the real world, and it's an emergency! Bobbie and her friends must take on unicorns, farting spiders, a giant nightmare squid, and a scary Viking bounty hunter who is determined to land the whole...
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English
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In this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling How to Be a Supervillain, Victor Spoil must save the world from an evil scheme to enslave the superheroes and villains -- to his parents' utter disappointment.
A sequel has never been this good . . . at being bad! Victor Spoil hates the Junior Super Academy. It makes him cranky -- and his parents couldn't be prouder, because supervillains aren't meant to be nice. Until Victor confesses he wants...
7) Ghosted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Larry's got a few problems. In school, he's one of those kids who easily gets lost in the crowd. And Grimm, Larry's best friend in the whole world, has ghosted him. Literally. One minute Grimm was saving a cat in a tree during a lightning storm, and the next, he's pulling pranks on Larry in his new ghostly form. When the two best friends realize that there's something keeping Grimm tethered to their world, they decide that finishing their Totally...
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How to be a supervillain volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But to his family's utter disappointment, Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. He won't run with scissors, he always finishes his peas, and he can't stand to be messy. Hopeless!"--
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English
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Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen,...
10) The naughty list
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Bobbie travels to the North Pole to remove her brother from Santa's unimpeachable Naughty List in this Christmas adventure"--
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Odd squad volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Nick and the rest of the Safety Patrol investigate a secret organization in order to save Karl from embarrassment"--
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Series
Odd squad volume 2
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Simone, a new student, seems intent on stealing Molly away from Nick and the only way Nick can think to stop her is by teaming with his old anti-bullying ally, but that will require Nick using himself as bait--both as the bullied and bullier.
13) Bully bait
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Series
Odd squad volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his school counselor insists that he needs better socialization skills after being stuffed into a locker by a bully, middle-schooler Nick finds himself, along with two other misfits, joining the school's lamest club: Safety Patrol.
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Series
How to be a supervillain volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When twelve-year-old do-gooder Victor Spoil gets a job at the library, he uncovers a plot by the librarians to hypnotize all the adults of the world.
15) Born to be good
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Series
How to be a supervillain volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old do-gooder Victor Spoil, a disappointment to his supervillain parents, must save the world from an evil scheme to enslave the superheroes and villains.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his school counselor insists that he needs better socialization skills after being stuffed into a locker by a bully, middle-schooler Nick finds himself, along with two other misfits, joining the school's lamest club: Safety Patrol.