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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.
Author
Series
My weird school ; 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Famous children's author Suki Kabuki and her pet raptor, Rappy, wreak havoc during a visit to Ella Mentry School.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today's game of football. The author, a sports commentator follows three NFL teams, the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons, from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick's influence on the game. This exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with insider access to the head coaches,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
Author
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach
Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL—the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory and robust biography, readers will come to understand and see Belichick's full life in...
Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL—the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory and robust biography, readers will come to understand and see Belichick's full life in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injured bird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An adventurous young falcon named Kai leaves his remote country home for Zambezia, the fabulous city of birds, against his father's wishes. When his father is captured by an evil lizard who plans to attack the city, Kai must learn the importance of teamwork to rescue his father and save his new friends.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife detective determined to stop him"--
"On May 3, 2010, Irish national Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. Hammer follows the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler...
14) Hawks
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the evolution, biology, life cycle, and social and mating behavior of hawks and falcons.
15) Falcondance
Author
Series
Kiesha'ra ; 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the peaceful coexistence of the avian and serpiente realms becomes increasingly precarious, nineteen-year-old Nicias, heir to the ancient and powerful falcon realm, learns some lessons about the past that will shape the future of their shared world.
17) Falcons
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to various species of falcons, describing their physical characteristics, feeding habits, parental behavior, and more.
18) Falcons
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides detailed information on the physical characteristics, evolution, various species, behavior, habitat, life cycle, and interaction with humans of falcons, some of the world's fastest birds.
Publisher
NFL Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
NFL Films takes you down the sidelines, on the field and into the locker room with exclusive access to all the vivid sounds and images of every game in the memorable 2016-2017 season of the Championship team, coupled with exciting extra content.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Computer-animated children's adventure following a feisty young falcon's coming of age and featuring the vocal talents of Samuel L. Jackson, Leonard Nimoy and Richard E. Grant. Kai is tired of only having his stern father for company at their remote home. When he meets an affable stork and weaver and complains of his plight they tell him about the bustling bird city of Zambezia just down the river. Unable to resist the promise of a new life, Kai flees...
