Alex Tresniowski
Author
Publisher
37 INK/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An inspirational memoir of near-death experience, rebirth, divine mercy, and finding faith.
On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her...to no avail.
Today, Crystal does not remember what happened in that hospital room during...